This is a book with serious attitude, with a take-no-prisoners approach as body-hopping ex-Envoy Takeshi Kovacs (think of an entire SAS platoon rolled into one person) is freed from prison (digital storage) in return for investigating the murder of a wealthy 'Meth', one of the long-lived elite who effectively control Earth. But it's his debut novel I am concerned with here.Īltered Carbon comes very highly recommended and, for the most part, this can be agreed with. He has also announced that his next project will be a fantasy trilogy, the first book of which has the interesting title of A Land Fit for Heroes. Morgan has also written two non-Kovacs novels, Market Forces (2004) and the forthcoming Black Man (2007). Since the book was published, two sequels have followed: Broken Angels (2003) and Woken Furies (2005). Welcome to Earth in the 25th Century.Īltered Carbon, first published in 2002, is the debut novel by British SF author Richard Morgan and also the first to feature his antihero Takeshi Kovacs. It's a world utterly unprepared to deal with a man named Takeshi Kovacs. It's a world where centuries-old rich folk have formed an elite watching over the rest of the human race. It's a world where human beings have become digital information, swapped between bodies, backed up on computer hard drives and sometimes illegally copied.
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