Morgan (Author) 4,049 ratings 4.0 on Goodreads 99,995 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 11.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Leather Bound from 299.99 1 New from 299. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold. The hopes and dreams of the technological movement known as transhumanism have been brought into the media spotlight thanks to Netflix’s new science fiction series, Altered Carbon (based on. MORGAN is joined by writer SCOTT BRYAN WILSON (Batman Annual, Batman: Gotham Nights) and artist MAX FUCHS (Halcyon Days) to deliver the original graphic novel ALTERED CARBON: ONE LIFE, ONE DEATH, a violent, galaxy-spanning adventure of prison breaks, political intrigue, and sinister machinations. Titles in this set Altered Carbon Broken Angels Woken Furies Altered Carbon This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller. Altered Carbon (The Takeshi Kovacs Series) Audio CD Unabridged, Maby Richard K. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.Įx-U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself.

In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”- The New York Times Book Review.

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