Altered Carbon

Altered Carbon
AuthorRichard K. Morgan
LanguageEnglish
SeriesTakeshi Kovacs
GenreScience fiction, mystery
PublisherVictor Gollancz Ltd
Publication date
28 February 2002
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (hardback & paperback)
Pages416 pp (Hardback),
375 (Paperback)
ISBN0-575-07321-7
OCLC48236269
Followed byBroken Angels 

Altered Carbon is a 2002 British cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K. Morgan. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. elite soldier turned private investigator, to investigate a rich man's death. It is followed by the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies.

The book was adapted as a Netflix television series, also titled Altered Carbon, in 2018.[1] In 2019 a graphic novel was created with Dynamite Comics.[2]


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