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"In the 26th century mankind has spread through the galaxy, taking its religions and racial divisions out into the cold arena of space. While tensions exist and small dirty wars flare up every now and then, the UN protectorate maintains an iron grasp on the new worlds, aided by its very own elite shock-troops; the Envoy Corps." "Meanwhile, what revision cannot guarantee technology has already delivered; when your consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack and routinely downloaded into a ne…
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- Full title :Altered carbon / Richard Morgan.
Summary
"In the 26th century mankind has spread through the galaxy, taking its religions and racial divisions out into the cold arena of space. While tensions exist and small dirty wars flare up every now and then, the UN protectorate maintains an iron grasp on the new worlds, aided by its very own elite shock-troops; the Envoy Corps." "Meanwhile, what revision cannot guarantee technology has already delivered; when your consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack and routinely downloaded into a new body even death has become little more than an inconvenience. As long as you can afford a new body." "Ex-UN Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before; it was a hazard of the job, but his last death was particularly brutal. Needlecast across light years of space, resleeved into a body in San Francisco on Old Earth and thrown into the centre of a conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that has forgotten how to value life, he soon realises that the shell that blew a hole in his chest on Harlan's World was only the beginning of his problems."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Publication Date:2002.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Gollancz
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2002.
Notes
F Fiction
The Physical Object
- Description:404 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0575073217, 9780575073210, 0575073225, 9780575073227, 057507390X, 9780575073906
- oclc:on1000515203
- LC Classification:PR6113.O786
- Dewey Decimal:823.92
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