Reddit reviews Altered Carbon (Gollancz S.F.)

There's some fairly steamy stuff in Altered Carbon

Going to put my 2 cents and Five Pounds Sterling in here as well. Probably in descending order of my favourites, actually!

As recommended elsewhere, the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons, comprised of four books (in two Omnibuses (Hyperion, Fall of Hyperion and Endymion, Rise of Endymion) are an excellent read. One of my all-time favourites.

Spares, by Michael Marshall Smith, is a weird one. Maybe not pure-Scifi, but definitely something to look at.

Altered Carbon, by Richard Morgan, is a dark, violent read but with a compelling protagonist. Contains possible the best revenge scene ever. Not for the squeamish. Grips you from the very first page.

Unto Leviathan (known in the US as "Ship of Fools") by Richard Paul Russo, is one of the two books that I've finished in one sitting (the other being The Fall of Hyperion). Brilliant page turner. Just don't expect things to get wrapped up neatly at the end.

Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds. Great standalone book, but once again too many questions left at the end! But I guess that's the point!

Eon by Greg Bear is quite hard Sci-Fi, but if that's your thing you'll love it.

Marrow by Robert Reed has some wonderful ideas, but is sadly not the most well written book in the world. A spaceship as big as Jupiter, inhabited by thousands of different alien species, ruled over by immortal humans who have discovered something hidden in the core of the ship. The story spans thousands of years. Can drag a little in the middle, but definitely worth a look at, if only for the concepts presented.

Think it's time to dig some of these out and give them another read. Maybe after some sleep...

It's 4:30am here, so I appreciate my descriptions have added nothing of value, hence the links. The links aren't affiliated or anything like that, they're just there for Redditor's perusal. ;)

Altered Carbon

For PKDeqsue trippiness, I recommend pretty much anything by Michael Marshall Smith (I started with Only Forward) and The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas.

For well-plotted atmosphere pieces I would recommend William Gibson, particularly if you like to snigger at the future circa 1985. His recent stuff is great too, but they are more contemporary mysteries than SF.

The sequence that begins with Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan is excellent noirish (and graphically explicit!) far-future ultratech.

Try these two authors, they aren't exactly Cyberpunk but you definetly feel the influence of that genre throughout the books.
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Accelerando

Takeshi Kovavs trilogy starting with Altered Carbon. Hard boiled violent future cyberpunk.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Altered-Carbon-GOLLANCZ-Richard-Morgan/dp/0575081244/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397778329&sr=8-1&keywords=Altered+Carbon

Neuromancer/Count Zero/Mona Lisa Overdrive by William Gibson (The original cyberpunk).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Neuromancer-William-Gibson/dp/0006480411/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397778407&sr=8-1&keywords=Neuromancer

Also Paolo Bacigalupi is very good. Near future sci-fi with environmental/biogenics slant. Ship Breaker and The Drowned Cities are set in the same world. The Wind Up Girl is also very good.