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2003

Title:	Altered carbon / Richard K. Morgan.
Author:	Morgan, Richard K., 1965-
Format:	Book
Edition:	1st American ed.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003.
Description:	375 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:	In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy under the watchful eye of the U.N.--and advances in technology have redefined life itself. Assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can now 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 brutal. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, resleeved into a body in the former San Francisco, 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 to be bought and sold.
Subjects:	Kovacs, Takeshi (Fictitious character) -- Fiction. Consciousness -- Fiction. Conspiracies -- Fiction. San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction. California -- Fiction.
Genre:	Science fiction. Detective and mystery fiction.
ISBN:	9780345457684 (trade paperback) 9780345457691 (paperback) 9781524798819
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Richard K. Morgan is the acclaimed author of The Cold Commands, The Steel Remains, Thirteen, Woken Furies, Market Forces, Broken Angels, and Altered Carbon, a New York Times Notable Book that also won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2003. The movie rights to Altered Carbon were optioned by Joel Silver and Warner Bros on publication, and a film version is currently in development with Mythology Entertainment. Market Forces was also optioned to Warner Bros, before it was even published, and it won the John W. Campbell Award in 2005. Thirteen won the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2007 and is currently under movie option to Straight Up films. The Steel Remains won the Gaylactic Spectrum Award in 2010, and its sequel, The Cold Commands, appeared in both Kirkus Reviews’ and NPR’s Best Science Fiction/Fantasy Books of the Year lists. Morgan is a fluent Spanish speaker and has lived and worked in Madrid, Istanbul, Ankara, and London, as well as having traveled extensively in the Americas, Africa, and Australia. He now lives in Scotland with his wife, Virginia, and son, Daniel. - (Random House, Inc.)

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