Time Recursion

Altered Carbon - Richard Morgan

Last week I’ve been walking among shelfs in our local library, trying to find an interesting book, so I could have something to read when I wouldn’t have anything better to do. Don’t get me wrong, I like to read, it’s just that lately, there’s so much other things to do, mostly with websites I manage, scouts and various other meetings plus school, so I don’t really have time to do anything else. And when I do have time, I usually spend it watching movies or playing a game I wanted to try for a long time (I’ll get back to this later in another post) or I simply go to sleep.

And so it happened that while I was searching a book shelf, specifically a shelf containing english science fiction literature, I stumbled upon an author that was previously unknown to me. It was Richard Morgan. And what a find! The mixture of hardcore cyberpunk, detective and crime fiction is just awesome! The story of Takeshi Kovacs, an Envoy born on Harlan’s World doing a detective’s job on the other side of the explored universe for a rich immortal men is very well written and at the same time mind boogling. The whole society, its technology, way of life, people’s prejudices and political corruption are so neatly and realistically presented, that you can’t help but to feel as a part of this world, and the story.

I don’t want to spoil the story for you, so I won’t go into details. All I want to say is, if you’re fans of science fiction, and if you liked Michael Crichton’s technically detailed novels, then you mustn’t miss this one.