(18) RICHARD MORGAN –
ALTERED CARBON / TAKESHI KOVACS TRILOGY (2002 – 2005)

Cyberpunk / post-cyberpunk trilogy – Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies

The future sucks. Five hundred years in the future (in or about the twenty-sixth century) – in which humanity is colonizing the galaxy and has achieved functional immortality through storing consciousness in a cortical ‘stack’, so that it can be ‘re-sleeved’ in a new body.

Like the best cyberpunk – or science fiction in general – it doles out its world-building in doses, mostly hints and oblique references.

And then there is the protagonist himself – a former ‘Envoy’, one of the United Nations Protectorate’s elite special forces and shock troops. If you hire him, expect a lot of collateral damage…

RATING:

B-TIER (HIGH TIER)