num_pages: 375
description: original cover of ISBN 9780345457684In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. 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.Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. 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. 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: Irene Elliot, Trepp, Bautista, Curtis, Lt. Kristen Ortega, Takeshi Kovacs, Miriam Bancroft, Oumou Prescott, Reileen Kawahara, Laurens Bancroft, Elias Ryker
genres: Audiobook, Crime, Science Fiction, Thriller, Noir, Science Fiction Fantasy, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
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