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Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan:
Science Fiction Inventions, Technology and Ideas
Remarkable first novel; this story is a winning sort of cyberpunk hard-boiled detective novel. Takeshi Kovacs is an Envoy, a soldier trained to withstand transfer from one body to the next. He is employed (“resleeved”) by a Meth (as in “Methuselah”) billionaire who was killed (and subsequently resleeved) and who wants to know how and why – never mind the plot summary, just read it. Highly recommended. Select an invention:
Automatic Hotel (Hotel Hendrix) - the hotel is your host |
Autosurgeon - doctor's robot helper |
Cortical Stack - USB/WiFi flashdrive for your brain |
External Eyelenses - make a spectacle of yourself |
Illuminum - glows with its own light |
Mandroid - a mechanical human |
Needlecast - tightbeam transmission of being |
Olfactory Wakeup Call - wakey wakey eggs and bakey |
Philips Squeeze Gun |
Spray-on Surgical Gloves |
Synthetic Sleeve - artificial body |
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