02716cam a2200505 a 4500 25442 25442 50322780 OCoLC 20190502000939.0 020729t20032002nyu 000 1 eng 2002031165 0345457684 (pbk.) 9780345457684 (pbk.) (OCoLC)50322780 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP CUY OCLCG STF CRU n-us-ca PS3613.O748 A78 2003 PR6113.O74 A78 2003 813/.6 21 SCI-FI Morgan, Richard K., 1965- 5013 Altered carbon / Richard K. Morgan. 1st American ed. New York : Del Rey/Ballantine Books, 2003, c2002. 375 p. ; 24 cm. In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself - a person's consciousness can be easily downloaded into a new body, making death nearly obsolete. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly brutal. Resleeved into a new body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that buys and sells human existence. As a warrior-for-hire, he is called to help a far-flung planet's government put down a bloody revolution. But when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he's only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. All that stands between them and the ancient alien spacecraft they mean to salvage are a massacred city bathed in deadly radiation, unleashed nanotechnology with a million ways to kill, and whatever surprises the highly advanced Martian race may have in store. Private investigators Fiction. 483 Soldiers of fortune Fiction. 5014 Rich people Fiction. 5015 Murder Investigation Fiction. 896 Interstellar travel Fiction. 5016 Nanotechnology Fiction. 5017 Genetic engineering Fiction. 5018 Immortalism Fiction. 5019 San Francisco (Calif.) Fiction. 1487 Detective and mystery fiction. lcgft. 412 Science fiction. lcgft. 494 rbf kts CD BTCLS PS3613.O748 PR6113.O74 ddc BOOK ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2018-03-20 16.00 1 MORG 37494 2021-05-15 2021-05-06 2018-03-20 BOOK