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2016-06-29 17:23:00

No. 118
essentialsaltes
2016-06-29 17:23:00

Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan

Similar to Leviathan Wakes, the last book I read, Altered Carbon is a mash-up of noir detective and science fiction. This one is more cyberpunk flavored, which already has a strong noir background (a formula I followed in making my own Cyber/Cthulhu/noir mashup in Eldritch Chrome). Morgan gets a lot of the feel of traditional noir right, unfortunately including the increasingly convoluted plot that gets fake-resolved and then rescrambled more and more unconvincingly. There's also a slight overseasoning of gun-and-combat fetishization for my tastes. But on the whole good stuff -- good enough to win the PKD award, anyway. It'll be interesting to see what Netflix makes of it, since they've announced a 10 episode series.

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Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan

Waking Nightmares / Some Assembly Required

Disco Elysium - Virtual Cities - The Light Ages

Galileo & the Science Deniers / Mediocre

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