![]() ![]() At the start of the book, however, he has a problem: he too has got himself killed. Laurens Bancroft is an Earth-based Methuselah, a tercentarian multibillionaire able to afford essentially indefinite life extension (in a continually youthful body), and pretty much all of life’s other luxuries including, inevitably, the trophy wife. At the start of the book, however, he has a problem: he’s just got himself killed. He has a wealth of elite military experience and neurological enhancements. Takeshi Kovacs is a UN Envoy-trained mercenary and petty criminal, operating on the planetary backwater of Harlan’s World. It’s fast-paced, convoluted, violent and thoughtful. (Review first published on the ASIM website, December 2007)Īltered Carbon, Richard Morgan’s first novel, is one of the eight books that Gollancz has chosen to re-issue under their new ‘Future Classics’ tag. ![]()
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