Amazingly entertaining book. It's among the recent SF books that read like scripts for big Hollywood productions. I guess it shows what this generation of writers did when growing up. They use the language and images so many people in the Western world grew up with and consuming these books is extre...
Great genre writing, even if it is a perfect mix of noir and post-cyberpunk. I know, I know, cyberpunk is generally associated with noir 50's style tough guy private-eye pulp, only with shiny. This is different because it is POST-cyberpunk in the great tradition I love to associate with Brin's Kiln ...
This was pretty good contemporary cyberpunk. Morgan doesn't have William Gibson's way with words, but his characters are more interesting and his pacing and action scenes are much better.There is the potential for a space opera here - the world of Altered Carbon is a far future in which humans have ...
I found the plot too convoluted (labyrinthine?). The book could easily have been shortened by 70 pages and been better for it. No terribly new ideas if you've been reading post-singularity SF. But still - well written, some interesting ideas about technology and society.Still not sure if I liked it ...
This book took forever to read. This is not a remark on its readability or how much I enjoyed it - stuff just kept getting in the way. Books kept bumping it off the list of three books I was currently reading - once because a book came in from the library that had a long line of holds behind it, so ...
Richard K. Morgan has successfully taken 20th century hard-boiled crime fiction, tossed in a little noir, and needle cast it into the 25th century. In Altered Carbon, Morgan creates a universe where the human race has spread itself among the stars, human attraction has been distilled down to a few b...
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