Altered Carbon
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By the twenty-fifth century, mankind has stretched across the stars under the iron gaze of the U.N. Old divisions of race, creed, and class remain, but science has dealt life—and death—a new hand. For those with the credits, a soul can be bottled in a cortical stack and poured into a fresh body, making mortality just another inconvenience.
Takeshi Kovacs, ex-Envoy and seasoned survivor, has died before. But his last death was brutal enough to linger. Now he’s been spun up again—one hundred eighty light-years from home—into a new sleeve on the grim streets of Bay City, where the Golden Gate Bridge hangs like a rusting skeleton over the bay.
What waits for him isn’t a second chance but a descent into a conspiracy steeped in blood and betrayal—one so venomous it shocks even a world where lives are traded as casually as currency. Kovacs has been many things in his lifetimes, but now he’ll need to be something more: the one man willing to carve the truth out of a society that no longer fears death.