Altered Carbon (#1 Carbon)

Author: Richard Morgan

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  • : $27.99 NZD
  • : 9780575081246
  • : Orion
  • : Gollancz
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  • : November 2008
  • : 197mm X 128mm X 30mm
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  • : 27.99
  • : September 2007
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  • : Richard Morgan
  • : Gollancz S. F. Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
  • : 823.92
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Barcode 9780575081246
9780575081246

Description

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This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.


Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.


But some things never change. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.


For a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.

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Awards

Winner of Philip K. Dick Award 2004.

Author description

Richard Morgan is 39 and 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.