TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morgan,Richard K.
TI  - Altered carbon
SN  - 0345457684
AV  - PS3613.O748 A78 2003
U1  - 813/.6 21
PY  - 2003///, c2002
CY  - New York
PB  - Del Rey/Ballantine Books
KW  - Private investigators
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Soldiers of fortune
KW  - Rich people
KW  - Murder
KW  - Investigation
KW  - Interstellar travel
KW  - Nanotechnology
KW  - Genetic engineering
KW  - Immortalism
KW  - San Francisco (Calif.)
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Science fiction
N2  - 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
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