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	Richard Morgan Altered Carbon Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		'Altered Carbon' is set in a 26th century San Francisco that seems every bit as gritty as any evocation of the city in either genre.
		The shootout that begins 'Altered Carbon' could come from any mystery novel written in the last half century.
		In Morgan's universe, humans are stored digitally (DHF) with the altered carbon of the title being the storage medium.
	www.trashotron.com /agony/reviews/morgan-altered_carbon.htm (601 words)

	Altered Carbon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Altered Carbon (2002) is a hardboiled science fiction novel by Richard Morgan (his first).
		Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the "United Nations Protectorate" oversees a number of planets settled by human beings, it features protagonist Takeshi Kovacs (the final "cs" is pronounced "ch").
		Kovacs is a former United Nations Envoy and a native of Harlan's World (settled by the Japanese yakuza with Eastern European labor).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Altered_Carbon (861 words)

	The Carbon Cycle
		The carbon cycle is the process through which carbon is cycled through the air, ground, plants, animals, and fossil fuels.
		Large amounts of carbon exist in the atmosphere as carbon dioxide (CO Carbon dioxide is cycled by green plants during the process known as photosynthesis to make organic molecules (glucose, which is food).
		Carbon is also stored in fossil fuels, such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas.
	library.thinkquest.org /11353/carbon.htm (428 words)

	Review - Altered Carbon - Richard K. Morgan
		Altered Carbon is precisely the kind of book for which we founded Inchoatus.
		The closest analogue to Altered Carbon is a very, very similar novel that also generated quite a lot of buzz: Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds.
		Altered Carbon is darn near the twin sibling of Reynold's Chasm City so if that book did it for you so will this one.
	www.inchoatus.com /Reviews/Review--Altered%20Carbon,%20Richard%20K%20Morgan.htm (1610 words)

	Altered Carbon - Topic Powered by eve community
		I didn't really dig Market Forces too much, but I enjoyed Altered Carbon and Broken Angels was one of the few novels that made me feel uncomfortable and somewhat offended (in the best possible sense of the word) by the violence; something that hasn't happened since I read Frank Miller's Sin City.
		Altered Carbon is good, but not in the same class as the inevitable touchstones, William Gibson and Raymond Chandler.
		Altered Carbon is pretty much a hybrid (like you said, Zoneseek) of Chandler and Gibson; a fast-paced, cyberpunkish detective story.
	neilgaimanboard.com /groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/963601826/m/99010925321 (874 words)

	Altered Carbon (Unabridged) Audio Book
		Altered Carbon (Unabridged) was authored by Richard K. Morgan and is narrated by N/A.
		Altered Carbon (Unabridged) is a great audio book to use as a test of this concept.
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	Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon interviewed
		First, there were the logistics of the thing—by the time Altered Carbon really took off, I had a good two thirds of Broken Angels already written, and the worry that it wouldn’t make such a big splash set in too late to affect things much.
		Altered Carbon saw him in a relatively civilized context (San Francisco!), so his behavior was relatively restrained.
		At the end of Altered Carbon, you were left with, in Kovacs’s words, "something clean," but only because it became vital for him to reject Reileen Kawahara’s taunts and believe that he was in some way different from her.
	www.sfcrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_april/news0404_1.shtml (4634 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Altered Carbon
		Takeshi Kovacs is the prime character of the books Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, and Woken Furies by Richard Morgan, which take place several centuries in the future.
		Listen to this article Â· (info) This audio file was created from an article revision dated 2006-01-11, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article.
		Woken Furies (2005) is the fourth published science fiction novel by Richard Morgan.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Altered-Carbon (1124 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Altered Carbon (Richard Morgan)
		I began Altered Carbon on the plane ride from home back to Yale Law School; I finished it about a week and a half later, through one of the busier stretches of my life.
		Altered Carbon is as much an action novel as a mystery, and it's a fairly gory one at that.
		But Altered Carbon is unrelenting: the world in which Kovacs moves is so tawdry and diseased that it's hard to feel happy about anything--including the book--while you read.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/MorganRichardAlteredCarbon.shtml (768 words)

	dragonsworn [book review] - Altered Carbon, Richard Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		'Altered Carbon' plays out like noir crime story, set in a world where the meaning of identity itself is ambigous, and power brokers have no qualms about using whoever they want to get ahead.
		For 'Altered Carbon', that principle focus is on dear old Earth.
		In general though, 'Altered Carbon' is one hell of a novel.
	www.dragonsworn.com /reviews/books/alteredcarbon.html (1015 words)

	Eagle's Path: Comment on Altered Carbon
		Altered Carbon is a detective novel set in 26th century.
		Altered Carbon is poorly written thinly disguised detective shit that belongs in the 1950's.
		I was actually insulted after reading all the great reviews Altered Carbon recieved only to then read the book and find it poorly written and a rehash of several novels of far superior standard I had read previously.
	journals.eyrie.org /mt/mt-comments?entry_id=519 (1014 words)

	Richard K. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Richard K. Morgan stormed the gates of British SF in 2001 with his breakout novel Altered Carbon, a story of sex, guns and "sleeves" set 600 years in the future.
		And since Altered Carbon is told from Kovacs’ viewpoint, the narrative has to reflect that nonchalance.
		In Altered Carbon he’s essentially a Chandleresque detective figure, and his military background as an Envoy is mostly implied rather than examined.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Apr03/richardkmorgan.htm (2218 words)

	Altered Carbon by Del Rey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With this one (first!) novel, Morgan's Altered Carbon has earned its place on the short list of scifi masterworks like Dahlgren, Stand on Zanzibar, Stranger in a Strange Land, and Neuromancer.
		Altered Carbon is Richard K. Morgan's debut novel but you'd never guess if you didn't know.
		Altered Carbon hits the floor running and then starts to accelerate.
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	The Salt-Box: Altered Carbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon is billed as a combination of hard-boiled detective fiction and cyberpunk, which strikes me as...
		Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon is billed as a combination of hard-boiled detective fiction and cyberpunk, which strikes me as a bit redundant, since cyberpunk depends on noir imagery.
		The conceit of the novel is that, at some point in the future, your consciousness and memories can be digitally stored, which means that you can be "resleeved" in a different body, perhaps a clone of yourself, but perhaps a very different one.
	jbj.wordherders.net /archives/001280.html (347 words)

	Richard Morgan, author of Altered Carbon interviewed
		First, there were the logistics of the thing—by the time Altered Carbon really took off, I had a good two thirds of Broken Angels already written, and the worry that it wouldn’t make such a big splash set in too late to affect things much.
		Altered Carbon saw him in a relatively civilized context (San Francisco!), so his behavior was relatively restrained.
		At the end of Altered Carbon, you were left with, in Kovacs’s words, "something clean," but only because it became vital for him to reject Reileen Kawahara’s taunts and believe that he was in some way different from her.
	www.computercrowsnest.com /sfnews2/04_april/news0404_1.shtml (4634 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Altered Carbon: Books: Richard K. Morgan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Altered Carbon takes the genre to a new level.
		He has taken the best ingredients: from the noir of Bladerunner, the tech of Ghost in the Machine, the action of Terminator, the gore and moral ambiguity of Reservoir Dogs and intrigue Dune, Morgan has distilled a fine spirit and created what is very close to a sci-fi masterclass.
		It would be optimal to read “Altered Carbon”, “Broken Angels” and “Woken Furies” in order, but not essential, as each is self-contained.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Altered-Carbon-Richard-K-Morgan/dp/0345457684 (1127 words)

	Reading Orbit, OCSFC Book Club: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
		--> Analysis: The ontology of Richard K. Morgan’s Altered Carbon is presented toward the end of the novel in one of the protagonist, Takeshi Kovacs’ memories of his training to become a U.N. Envoy (Envoys are entrusted, through a combination of military and Eastern religious training, to establish order in the colonies beyond the Earth).
		I would maintain that Altered Carbon wishes to draw our attention to the fact that since the ego is a non-object, always subject to the possibility of change, it is always possible for us to choose who we are.
		One way to understand Altered Carbon would be to say that Kovacs draws upon the “will to power,” that free, creative force within us all, in order to remake his life.
	members.cox.net /ocsfc/reading_orbit/altered_carbon.htm (2185 words)

	www.reviewingtheevidence.com \| ALTERED CARBON, by Richard Morgan
		Cyberpunk is the warped love child of science fiction and the hard-boiled detective novel, combining the futurist visions and techo-fantasies of sci-fi with the gritty, dark and violent rhythms of classic noir fiction.
		ALTERED CARBON is set in the 25th century, when the planet Earth is merely one of a number of colonized worlds.
		The protagonist of ALTERED CARBON is Takeshi Kovacs, a former special forces soldier trained in techniques of investigation and killing, whose digitized consciousness is beamed to Earth and sleeved into the body of a former cop to investigate the suicide of a wealthy Meth, short for Methuselah.
	www.reviewingtheevidence.com /review.html?id=2622 (525 words)

	Review - Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
		Richard Morgan's ALTERED CARBON is an SF novel of extraordinary vision and depth.
		All good ideas should propagate and evolve and the cortical stack and virtual worlds presented in Altered Carbon are so reminiscent of Greg Egan's copies it would perhaps stretch coincidence a little too far.
		Altered Carbon is quite simply a breath taking debut.
	www.booklore.co.uk /PastReviews/MorganRichard/AlteredCarbon/AlteredCarbonReview.htm (999 words)

	Altered Carbon - an extract from the novel by Richard Morgan
		Altered Carbon - an extract from the novel by Richard Morgan
		The thin crimson line around each canister seemed to sparkle slightly, as if it were about to detach itself from the metal casing and float up to join the curlicues of smoke ribboning off my cigarette.
		Shift and slide of altered significants, the side effect of the tetrameth I'd scored that afternoon down at the wharf.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /stories/alteredcarbon.htm (2518 words)

	Richard Morgan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 2002 Morgan's first novel Altered Carbon was published, combining elements of cyberpunk and hardboiled detective fiction and featuring the anti-hero Takeshi Kovacs.
		The film rights for the book sold for a reported figure of $1,000,000 to film producer Joel Silver, enabling Morgan to become a full-time writer.
		In 2003 Broken Angels was published, the sequel to Altered Carbon, again featuring Takeshi Kovacs and blending science fiction and war fiction in a similar way to his cross-genre debut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Richard_Morgan (308 words)

	The Quern » Blog Archive » Book Review: Altered Carbon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Drawing freely from the tropes of film noir, detective fiction, and cyberpunk, Altered Carbon is not only a tight mystery with excellent pacing but also a deep exploration about what it really means to be a human individual.
		The main character of Altered Carbon, Takeshi Kovacs, is one of the latter.
		A film version of Altered Carbon could be great if it was done with the same cinematographic sensibilities as Blade Runner.
	www.wigdahl.net /blog/2005/06/26/book-review-altered-carbon (1044 words)

	Richard Morgan: Altered Carbon - an infinity plus review
		I predict Altered Carbon will be hoovering up rewards this year like a coke addict on holiday in Columbia.
		Altered Carbon is remarkably violent; I have no idea what the final body count might be, but I know that it's high.
		There are occasional throwaway mentions of background details here that beg entire novels on their own; ubiquitous pieces of history dismissed in single lines that had my nose twitching, scenting something far bigger lurking, hidden under the surface.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/alteredcarbon.htm (506 words)

	The Pinocchio Theory » Blog Archive » Altered Carbon
		Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan, has been widely acclaimed–rightly–as one of the best science fiction debuts of the last several years.
		In the world of Altered Carbon, everyone is fitted at birth with a “cortical stack,” a tiny device that records all your mental experience and the states of your neurons.
		For one thing, Altered Carbon is about the impossibility of truly determining where the body ends and the mind begins.
	www.shaviro.com /Blog/?p=116 (833 words)

	Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan
		Altered Carbon would be a remarkable book coming from a seasoned novelist.
		Far from being merely a vehicle for gratuitous combat and pornography, Altered Carbon is an intelligently written cyber-punk murder mystery that keeps its secrets until the action-packed climax.
		Don't be surprised if Altered Carbon shows up on several nomination and "recommended" lists for 2002.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Jun02/alteredcarbon.htm (467 words)

	The Humblest Blog on the Net
		Altered Carbon is a fun read in the same vein as Snow Crash and Bladerunner...a future world corrupt and utterly human, where ubiquitous technology has made human life far less fleeting.
		The plot is a relatively straightforward murder mystery in flavor, albeit one in which the detective is an rogue killer and the murder victim hires the detective himself after the deed has been successfully accomplished.
		The technological marvel most central to Morgan's world is the cortical stack, a database and computer stored in a tiny cylinder of "Altered Carbon" implanted at the base of the skull of every child, capable of storing many lifetimes worth of memories and thoughts and doing so automatically.
	www.thehumblest.net /humblog/00000076.html (710 words)

	SF REVIEWS.NET: Altered Carbon / Richard K. Morgan
		Set roughly five hundred or so years in the future, Altered Carbon imagines a world in which death has been overcome by the technology of "sleeving." A person's consciousness is stored in a doodad called the cortical stack, located at the base of the skull.
		And Altered Carbon is an often brutal noir-ish thriller set in a world where life can't seem to come any cheaper.
		But if Altered Carbon's first half feels as if Morgan is trying too hard to prove himself, things improve markedly in the second half, when we finally get to see the central mystery resolve itself and can marvel at Morgan's craft in weaving such tangled webs.
	www.sfreviews.net /alteredcarbon.html (1020 words)

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		They are also thought to slow the rate of climate change by increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) that vegetation and trees, so-called carbon sinks, absorb from the atmosphere.
		The scientists warned that future droughts and severe temperatures could turn ecosystems in temperate climates into carbon sources by damaging the ability of plants to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.
		The 1997 Kyoto protocol is aimed at stopping climate change by reducing the amount of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by industry.
	www.climateark.org /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=46462 (476 words)

	Temporal Anomalies in the Film Millennium
		It must be said that although only five trips to the past are documented in the story, it is intrinsic to the concept that Louise and her crew have done this many times, pulling thousands of people from the past just before their deaths.
		Whether time has been altered so drastically as to create something other than a benign N-jump is much more a question of the details of history, not a question of a change in time itself.
		Instead, let us observe that the instant the altered timeline occurs is the same instant the time traveler steps into the past, but that the spatial location of the arrival is immediately the focus of all of the changes which will occur.
	www.mjyoung.net /time/mill.html (6234 words)

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