The title “Altered Carbon” and the subtitle “No Body lives Forever” are really clever and appropriate. Morgan had the foresight to develop an interesting premise that would not lose relevancy as the years went by and he continued to write more adventures for his central character, “Takeshi Kovacs”. Why am I only now reviewing Altered Carbon? Because self-isolation leads to a lot of hours of watching Netflix.
This is why the television version of the novels has been so successful. Twenty years on it is still ingenious, due to the world changing, so that the issues and ideas at the core of the series that were relevant then, are still relevant now. The concept on which Altered Carbon is based is ingenious – it was futuristic and fantastical when Richard Morgan wrote the first book in the series way back in 2002.
Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan (mass market paperback edition, published by Del Ray, 2006)
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