MARCH BOOK
Our March book will be Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (https://www.amazon.com/Altered-Carbon-Netflix-Takeshi-Kovacs/dp/1524798819/ref=tmm_pap_title_1?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1581298405&sr=8-1 ). For all you Netflixers, the book has been serialized and was produced in Vancouver and environs, with many recognizable local landmarks. (Beware: there are significant alterations from the book.) Join the gang at the Sylvia Hotel Lounge on the evening of Tuesday, March 3 for comfort food and beverages and a lively literary discussion, beginning at 7pm. Newcomers always welcome.
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), 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.
Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), 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.
