The Resource Altered carbon, Richard K. Morgan
Altered carbon, Richard K. Morgan
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Resource Information
The item Altered carbon, Richard K. Morgan represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library.
This item is available to borrow from 2 library branches.
- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- viii, 471 pages
- Note
- First published: 2001
- Isbn
- 9781473223677
- Label
- Altered carbon
- Title
- Altered carbon
- Statement of responsibility
- Richard K. Morgan
- Subject
-
- trueScience fiction
- Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- Nanotechnology -- Fiction
- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- Rich people -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Life on other planets -- Fiction
- Interstellar travel -- Fiction
- Immortalism -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- YDX
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1965-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Morgan, Richard K.
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Private investigators
- Soldiers of fortune
- Rich people
- Murder
- Interstellar travel
- Life on other planets
- Nanotechnology
- Genetic engineering
- Immortalism
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Altered carbon, Richard K. Morgan
- Note
- First published: 2001
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061568354
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 471 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473223677
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002289732
- Label
- Altered carbon, Richard K. Morgan
- Note
- First published: 2001
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 000061568354
- Dimensions
- 20 cm.
- Extent
- viii, 471 pages
- Isbn
- 9781473223677
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1002289732
Subject
- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- Immortalism -- Fiction
- Interstellar travel -- Fiction
- Life on other planets -- Fiction
- Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Nanotechnology -- Fiction
- Private investigators -- Fiction
- Rich people -- Fiction
- San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction
- trueScience fiction
- Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction
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