Description
| Author/Contributor(s): | Morgan, Richard K. |
| Publisher: | Del Rey |
| Date: | 3/4/2003 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Condition: | NEW |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NOW AN EXCITING SERIES FROM NETFLIX • The shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning in this “tour de force of genre-bending, a brilliantly realized exercise in science fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitoredby the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class stillexist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can affordthe expensive procedure, a person’s consciousness can be stored in a cortical stackat the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”) makingdeath nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs hasbeen killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundredeighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco,now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the darkheart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards ofa society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.
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