Altered Carbon

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Ballantine Books, 2006 - Fiction - 526 pages
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can 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 painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), 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 that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. . . .


From the Trade Paperback edition.
 

Contents

Section 1
3
Section 2
11
Section 3
65
Section 4
79
Section 5
98
Section 6
111
Section 7
149
Section 8
164
Section 14
327
Section 15
339
Section 16
358
Section 17
392
Section 18
419
Section 19
424
Section 20
443
Section 21
452

Section 9
176
Section 10
203
Section 11
248
Section 12
274
Section 13
294
Section 22
467
Section 23
482
Section 24
519
Section 25
527
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