num_pages: 526
description: It's the twenty-fifth century, and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person's consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve"), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), 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. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning.
language: English
title: Altered Carbon
titlecomplete: Altered Carbon (Takeshi Kovacs, #1)
characters: Laurens Bancroft, Oumou Prescott, Elias Ryker, Takeshi Kovacs, Reileen Kawahara, Irene Elliot, Bautista, Lt. Kristen Ortega, Miriam Bancroft, Curtis, Trepp
genres: Audiobook, Thriller, Cyberpunk, Science Fiction, Crime, Science Fiction Fantasy, Noir, Fantasy, Mystery, Fiction
ratings_count: 103619
places: San Francisco, California
series: Takeshi Kovacs
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Locus Award
category: Best First Novel, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis
category: Bestes ausländisches Werk, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Philip K. Dick Award, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire
category: Roman étranger, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Seiun Award 星雲賞
category: Best Translated Long Form
publisher: Del Rey / Ballantine Books