![]() “Outstanding,” said the Times, “an astonishing first novel.” Hollywood came calling in the form of Joel Silver, who produced the Matrix. ![]() This slice of dystopian noir made an instant name for Morgan when it was published in 2001. Kovacs, a former member of a military elite, is tasked with investigating the apparent suicide of one of Earth’s richest men – or, as he puts it: “freighted in to do a job that the local police wouldn’t touch with a riot prod.”The story is set in the 25th century, by which time humans are able to digitally store their consciousnesses and transfer them into “sleeves”, as new bodies are called. ![]() The writer, seated in a London cafe, grins with delight when I mention it: he lives in a village just outside Norwich and that poster, of a body preserved in plastic, is the first one he’s seen.Altered Carbon tells the story of ultra-tough antihero Takeshi Kovacs, who wakes up on Earth “180 light years from home, wearing another man’s body on a six-week rental agreement”. ![]() ![]() O n my way to meet Richard Morgan, I pass a poster for Altered Carbon, the new Netflix series based on his hardboiled cyberpunk novel about a future Earth where humans can transfer into different bodies. ![]()
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