Saturday, March 8, 2014

Altered Carbon (2002). Richard K. Morgan

(ebook) The first 2 techno-thrillers I tried this year left me either unsatisfied or with a  bad taste in my mouth, so I tried a third one, and this one probed to be fairly entertaining, a detective story set in the future, where humans can download their mind on new (natural or artificial) bodies.

Plenty of chases, shootings, fights, some sex (basically a pulp), but some interesting sci fi ideas, some of the not part of the actual plot, but off the cuff, such as the mention that whale language had been decrypted, and the communication had provided information about pre-history.

I'm halfway through.

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