Altered Carbon

Extract: After reading two books in his "Land Fit for Heroes" trilogy and loving his prose, I decided to try another Morgan book, this time, his first novel, "Altered Carbon". For it, he won the Philip K. Dick Award for best novel first published in the US as a paperback original. I knew it was a noir-ish thriller, another sub-genre I'm not especially drawn to, but I thought I'd give it a chance. To my astonishment, I can say that this is the first such book where I didn't get terribly lost, but actually enjoyed it...