{"title":"Altered Carbon","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"altered-carbon-book-01","title":"Altered Carbon Book 01","description":"                                            Four hundred years from now mankind is strung out across a region of interstellar space inherited from an ancient civilization discovered on Mars. The colonies are linked together by the occasional sublight colony ship voyages and hyperspatial data-casting. Human consciousness is digitally freighted between the stars and downloaded into bodies as a matter of course.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut some things never change. 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. 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.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor 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.\u003cbr\u003eRichard Morgan was, until his writing career took off, a tutor at Strathclyde University in the English Language Teaching division. He has travelled widely and lived in Spain and Istanbul. He is a fluent Spanish speaker. He lives, with his wife, in Glasgow.\r\n                                        ","brand":"Altered Carbon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42283426152639,"sku":"9780575081246","price":26.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/1689\/8751\/products\/xiWyr7iO7L5ZyHIUAl3bZy34O5CIdQX_kLwtZZbvOWs0Lg_60_60.jpg?v=1679023118"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.popweasel.co.nz\/collections\/altered-carbon.oembed","provider":"Pop Weasel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}