Altered Carbon: One Life, One Death (2021)Īltered Carbon: Download Blues (2003) – Takeshi Kovacs was once a member of the Envoy Corps, stormtroopers for the Interstellar Earth Protectorate, ultra-lethal adepts in switching bodies across the stars.

The second graphic novel was done by writer Scott Bryan Wilson and artist Max Fuchs. Morgan, Rik Hoskin and drawn by Ferran Sellares. The Altered Carbon universe expands with two graphic novels published by Dynamite Entertainment. An act of quixotic chivalry later and Kovacs was in deep: mixed up with a woman with two names, many powers, and one explosive history.

Woken Furies (2005) – Once a gang member, then a marine, then a galaxy-hopping Envoy trained to wreak slaughter and suppression across the stars, a bleeding, wounded Kovacs was chilling out in a New Hokkaido bar when some so-called holy men descended on a slim beauty with tangled, hyperwired hair. So when a rogue pilot and a sleazy corporate fat cat offer him a lucrative role in a treacherous treasure hunt, he’s only too happy to go AWOL with a band of resurrected soldiers of fortune. But when it comes to taking sides, the only one Kovacs is ever really on is his own.

trading sleuthing for soldiering as a warrior-for-hire, and helping a far-flung planet’s government put down a bloody revolution. envoy turned private eye, has changed careers, and bodies, once more. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City, Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats “existence” as something that can be bought and sold.īroken Angels (2003) – Cynical, quick-on-the-trigger Takeshi Kovacs, the ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. The story takes place some 500 years into the future, where The United Nations Interstellar Protectorate (also simply called The UN or The Protectorate), a totalitarian government, monitors humanity, which has settled on a number of planets.Īltered Carbon (2002) – Ex-U.N. Morgan’s Takeshi Kovacs series (also known as the Altered Carbon series) is a Cyberpunk trilogy featuring Takeshi Kovacs, an ex-UN elite soldier turned criminal/mercenary/bodyguard/detective who makes a living by combining his problem-solving skills with psychotic brutality. You might even say it’s a pointless distinction.”

“Reality is so flexible these days, it’s hard to tell who’s disconnected from it and who isn’t.

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