The book doesn't need porn in it to keep us from getting bored between firefights - really.Īltered Carbon takes place in a future where humans have colonies on other worlds and people can be instantaneously "needlecast" between planets thanks to the technology of "sleeving." The basic premise is one that's been explored already in science fiction: digitized humanity. There's a tradition in sci-fi of obligatory, and obligatorily bad, sex scenes, born of the era when many sci-fi authors wrote erotica to actually pay the bills and just transported those literary skills wholesale into their science fiction once they could get away with it. Takeshi Kovacs is a bad-ass super-soldier who carves a bloody swath of vengeance across the criminal underworld in between bouts of pleasurin' the laaaydeez, so yeah. Morgan, was kind of a dick to her on Twitter.) (In fairness, a lot of acrackedmoon's vitriol was because the author, Richard K. acrackedmoon called it neckbeard wish fulfillment. Not for the first time, I greatly enjoyed a book that got cored and gutted on Requires Only That You Hate. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. Dispatched 180 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. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. 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.Įx-U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N.
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