Richard Morgan’s debut SF thriller Altered Carbon is one of the most popular SF books in the last 10 years but isn’t for the faint-hearted. Its noir private-eye investigation races through extreme violence, hideously imaginative torture and many high-tech firefights.
Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award for Best Novel 2003
In 2411, death is not forever. Afterward, they can read your personality from an implanted “cortical stack” and upload you into a new body–at a price. Hero Kovacs has worn many bodies on different worlds as a former member of the UN Envoy Corps, programmed killers to a man. Now the incredibly rich Bancroft brings him to Earth to investigate a killing… of Bancroft himself, restored from his digital backup and rejecting the police theory of suicide.
