Kovacs wanders around aimlessly, doesn't really do much to try and figure anything out aside from 2 kind of lame conversation attempts, then he leaves. The whole "Invite all the Meths over for a party to see who might want to kill me" seemed utterly pointless. There seem to be big jumps in the plot in the show. My guess is that Ortega is a more layered and subtle character in the book - at least I would hope. Then when Kovacs deduces his sleeve is someone she cares about, she caves in 30 seconds and says she'll tell him everything.
Her anger is incredibly cliche and seems out of place half the time. Ortega is extremely overacted for starters.
I'm 4 episodes in, and I am finding the show very uneven, aside from the cinematography and effects. I have not read the book, but it has been on my list and I had been looking forward to the show. Don't discuss spoilers on non-spoiler tagged posts without using spoiler "code" >!Your Text Here!!Your Text Here!Don't put spoilers in the title of your post.Contracted by a billionaire to discover who murdered his last body, Kovacs is drawn into a terrifying conspiracy that stretches across known space and to the very top of society.įor a first-time SF writer to be so surely in command of narrative and technology, so brilliant at world-building, so able to write such readable and enjoyable SF adventure, is simply extraordinary.ALTERED CARBON is set in a future where consciousness is digitized and stored in cortical stacks implanted in the spine, allowing humans to survive physical death by having their memories and consciousness "re-sleeved" into new bodies. So when ex-envoy, now-convict Takeshi Kovacs has his consciousness and skills downloaded into the body of a nicotine-addicted ex-thug and presented with a catch-22 offer, he really shouldn¿t be surprised. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.īut some things never change. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. This must-read story is a confident, action-and-violence packed thriller, and future classic noir SF novel from a multi-award-winning author.įour hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars.
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