Altered Carbon
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Series: Kovacs #1
Narrator: Todd McLaren
Unabridged: 16 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 01/10/2005
Category: Fiction
Author: Richard K. Morgan
Series: Kovacs #1
Narrator: Todd McLaren
Unabridged: 16 hr 13 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)
Publisher: Tantor Media, Inc.
Published: 01/10/2005
Category: Fiction
Richard Morgan has recreated the tough, cynical ethos of the best Dashiel Hammett noir mysteries in a future world where the technology may be 200 years ahead of our own but where human beings are no happier and no better than they are today. People are regularly 'resleeved' into new bodies when the old one is irreversibly damaged, so being killed no longer means you're dead. Todd McLaren is so good at capturing just the right tone and mood for Morgan's books you find yourself picturing the young Lauren Bacall as you listen to McLaren render the sultry voice of the 'murder victim's' wife. Well written, very well read.
This deserves to be placed among the very best SciFi novels. In the cynical, gritty vein of William Gibson, Richard Morgan adds his own unique vision of a technologically advanced future where everything has changed except for the human capacity for cruelty and selfishness. This is an exciting, suspenseful story which, although dark, will hold your attention from start to finish. Also, after hearing Todd McLaren read a Morgan novel, you'll wonder why McLaren wasn't asked to read all of Morgan's stories.