Altered Carbon

Coming to Netflix in 2018, 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.

Revenita la Netflix in 2018, aceasta poveste de citit trebuie sa fie un thriller increzator, plin de actiune si violenta, si viitorul roman SF clasic noir, de la un autor premiat cu mai multe premii. a spatiului interestelar mostenit de la o civilizatie antica descoperita pe Marte. Coloniile sunt legate intre ele prin calatorii ocazionale de nave coloniere sublume si prin transmiterea de date hiperspatiale.