Altered Carbon, 9780575081246
Paperback
Mind uploaded, body borrowed, Kovacs hunts a killer across the stars.

Altered Carbon

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  • Paperback

    480 pages

  • Release Date

    31 October 2008

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Summary

Altered Carbon: A Mind-Bending Journey Through Future Crimes

Four hundred years in the future, humanity has spread across the stars, inheriting interstellar space from an ancient Martian civilization. Linked by slow colony ships and hyperspatial data, human consciousness is routinely digitized and downloaded into new bodies.

But some things remain constant. Ex-envoy and convict Takeshi Kovacs finds himself resurrected in the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug, presented wit…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780575081246
ISBN-10:0575081244
Series:Takeshi Kovacs
Author:Richard Morgan
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Gollancz
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:480
Release Date:31 October 2008
Weight:340g
Dimensions:198mm x 128mm x 34mm
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Critics Review

An astonishing piece of work. Intriguing and inventive in equal proportions– Peter F. Hamilton

Outstanding. An astonishing first novel * THE TIMES *An astonishing piece of work. Intriguing and inventive in equal proportions – Peter F Hamilton

About The Author

Richard Morgan

Richard Morgan was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He lives, with his wife, in Glasgow.

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