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On Earth, a Meth named Laurens Bancroft has died in mysterious circumstances in Bay City (formerly San Francisco). Kovacs is sentenced to a long term in stack storage. On the colony planet of Harlan's World, Takeshi Kovacs and his partner Sarah Sachilowski, former Envoys who had returned to a life of crime, are killed by a U.N. Envoys are so successful and dangerous that they are generally prohibited from holding elected office on any world. They are an elite military group with extensive training in re-sleeving and psychological modification, as well as combat.

In order to deal with the challenges of interspace warfare, the U.N. Numerous colony planets exist apart from Earth many were previously inhabited by an extinct alien civilization referred to as the Elders. Their consciousness is preserved and stored virtually, sometimes for decades, while their body is sold to the highest bidder to be used for re-sleeving another person. People who commit serious crimes are imprisoned 'on stack'. This ensures that even if their stack is destroyed, they can be re-sleeved.

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The very rich are also able to keep copies of their minds in remote storage, which they update regularly. Those who have lived for multiple lifespans are called Meths, a reference to the Biblical figure Methuselah.

Only the wealthy are able to acquire replacement bodies on a continual basis. Thus, while people can live indefinitely in theory, most choose not to.

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While most people can afford to get resleeved at the end of their lives, they are unable to update their bodies and must go through the full aging process each time, which discourages most from re-sleeving more than once or twice. Dual-sleeving, or controlling two bodies with one personality, is strictly prohibited by U.N. This proposition reverses precedent and would allow authorities to temporarily re-sleeve a deceased Catholic woman to testify in a murder trial. At the start of the novel, UN Resolution 653 is being debated. This makes Catholics easy targets for murder, since killers know their victim may not be re-sleeved to testify. Roman Catholics do not allow their stacks to be re-sleeved after death, as they believe that the soul goes to Heaven when they die, and so would not pass on to the new sleeve. Their stacks can be downloaded into new bodies, or 'sleeves', after death. If their body dies, their stack can be stored indefinitely. Most people have cortical stacks in their spinal columns that store their consciousness. In the future, humans have achieved virtual immortality. In 2019 a graphic novel was created with Dynamite Comics. The book was adapted as a Netflix television series, also titled Altered Carbon, in 2018. It is followed by the sequels Broken Angels and Woken Furies. elite soldier turned private investigator, to investigate a rich man's death. Set in a future in which interstellar travel and relative immortality is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ('sleeves'), it follows the attempt of Takeshi Kovacs, a former U.N. Altered Carbon is a 2002 cyberpunk novel by the English writer Richard K.

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