Takeshi Kovacs Altered Carbon, Book 1, (Paperback)

from snarkhunt

Wonderful. A beautiful classic noir mystery set in a place where bodies are a commodity and life is cheap and possibly permanent. Sex, death, betrayal and crime for the cyber set. The strength of the noir pattern is a backbone for the sf tropes of transcendence and virtuality. SF for those who th...

from AnnieMod

In the future the problem of overcrowded prisons is solved by just downloading the person into the stack and storing their body. Once your sentence is over, you may get your body back - if you can pay for it. In the meantime, if someone pays, they can walk into your body. And if you are really ri...

from reading_fox

Not bad, even pretty good for a debuet novel, but with a few flaws. Some good imagination and a healthy respect for the consequences of the actions kept it moving along fast enough, although I wouldn't call it "relentlessly fast paced myself". The basic premise is that in the future, your persona...

from snarkhunt

Wonderful. A beautiful classic noir mystery set in a place where bodies are a commodity and life is cheap and possibly permanent. Sex, death, betrayal and crime for the cyber set. The strength of the noir pattern is a backbone for the sf tropes of transcendence and virtuality. SF for those who th...

from AHS-Wolfy

Laurens Bancroft committed suicide but doesn't buy the verdict that the police seem readily to accept. After all, he would've known he'd be re-sleeved and just lose the time since his last remote storage backup so why would he take the trouble? A bungled murder attempt seems more likely to him so...