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  • Richard Morgan's "Altered Carbon"

    08/09/2003 5:39:08 AM PDT · by cgbg · 4 replies · 241+ views
    vanity-book commentary | August 9, 2003 | cgbg jr
    I want to highly recommend this book. This is Morgan's first, just released in the U.S. this year. It is a noir detective story in a science fiction setting. The SF ideas come fast and furious, and the detailed description of a future San Francisco will capture your imagination. Immortality is a theme that has come to the forefront in science fiction in the digital age. If our brains were downloaded into computers, and clones were held in storage in the event of our death, then, voila, we could live forever. Richard Morgan explores the dark side of such a...