# Altered Carbon

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- Book: [Altered Carbon](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-k-morgan/altered-carbon) ([Altered Carbon.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-k-morgan/altered-carbon.md))
- Authors: [Richard Morgan](https://www.bookquiver.com/richard-k-morgan)
- Publisher: Gollancz
- ISBN: 978-14-7322-367-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2018-02-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

MAJOR NEW NETFLIX SERIES 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.