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Kovacs 01 - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan, Richard K. Morgan is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Kovacs 01 - Altered Carbon about?

Richard Morgan's debut SF thriller Altered Carbon isn't for the faint-hearted. Its noir private-eye investigation races through extreme violence, hideously imaginative torture and many high-tech firefights.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.Half the vice-lords of 25th-century San Francisco are soon chasing Kovacs with futuristic surveillance, drugs and weaponry. Virtual-reality interrogation means they can torture you to death, and then start again. There's a bleak slave trade in rented or confiscated bodies--and Kovacs finds his current borrowed face is all too well known to both police and underworld.

Who reads Kovacs 01 - Altered Carbon?

It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.

Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.

Author
Richard Morgan, Richard K. Morgan
Publisher
Gollancz; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published
2002
Language
EN
ISBN
9780575073906
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction
Rating
4.1 / 5 (636 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14