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  “A superbly rich and varied feast of fiction . . . From the very first page, it’s a pure adrenaline rush of slick, hard-hitting prose, superb characterization, and a plot that grabs you and just won’t let go. . . . Richard Morgan is destined to be a very, very big name in science fiction circles for a long time to come.” —The Alien Online

  “A wonderful novel . . . Its credentials as a detective story are impeccable, fair puzzle and all, and that’s in a universe where minds can be shifted from body to body!” —LARRY NIVEN

  “Breathtakingly visionary and seductively credible . . . Morgan explodes an endless stream of fascinating ideas about how our present technologies may evolve. . . . It is a world so rich in detail that it’s inconceivable for there not to be a run of sequels starring Takeshi Kovacs, a classic noir hero, slicing his way through the pulsing, corrupted, gloriously cancerous mess of it all.” —New Straits Times Press (Malaysia)

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  Published by The Ballantine Publishing Group

  Copyright © 2002 by Richard K. Morgan

  All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by The Ballantine Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in Great Britain by Gollancz, an imprint of Orion Books, in 2002.

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Morgan, Richard K., 1965–

  Altered carbon / Richard K. Morgan.

  p. cm.

  1. Title.

  PS3613.O748 A78 2003

  813′.6—dc21

  2002031165

  eISBN: 978-0-345-45770-7

  v3.0