THE NOVEL
The 25th century runs on a simple equation: consciousness is data, data can be stored, and storage can be transferred. Your body — your sleeve — is hardware. Replaceable. Upgradeable. Disposable. The self that inhabits it is a file on a cortical stack, no bigger than a coin, lodged at the base of your skull.
Takeshi Kovacs has been dead. He's been re-sleeved into a stranger's body on a planet he never asked to visit, handed a case that doesn't add up, and told to solve it by a man who should know the answer better than anyone. The city of Bay City waits outside — violent, luminous, and utterly indifferent to what happens next.
TAKESHI KOVACS
Trained to adapt to any body, any environment, any threat. Conditioned until instinct became doctrine and doctrine became reflex. Woken into a stranger's flesh on a planet he never chose, handed a case that smells wrong from the first breath. He's been dead before. It didn't take.
SUNTOUCH HOUSE
The Meths don't live in Bay City. They live above it — in orbital mansions draped in cloud, where the weather is optional and the law is a courtesy. Centuries of compound interest will do that to a person.
EXPLORE THE SITE
Sleeves. Stacks. The architecture of disposable flesh.
Envoy. Killer. The last man standing in a body not his own.
Centuries old. Untouchable. Death is for other people.
The writer who built a world from rage and precision.
The language of a future that has forgotten mercy.
Three novels. One soldier. No clean exits.
Morgan's other wars. Different bodies, same damage.
Bodies for rent. Conditions apply. No refunds.
Lines that stay with you long after you've tried to forget them.
The frequencies that match the voltage of this world.
"The personal, as everyone's so fucking fond of saying, is political. So if some idiot politician, some power player, tries to execute policies that harm you or those you care about, take it personally. Get angry. The Quellists did. It was the only honest response to what was being done to them."
— QUELLCRIST FALCONER · ALTERED CARBON