Weird & Wonderful- Altered Carbon

For the June meeting of City Lit's Weird & Wonderful club, we discussed Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan.

A sex-and-violence-filled cyberpunk noir-ish tale, Altered Carbon is the first of Morgan's books featuring Takeshi Kovacs, P.I.-slash-cybercommando-ninja...guy. In a world where people are outfitted with devices that record their memories, allowing them to be re-implanted in another body, Kovacs is hired to solve a convuluted case involving shady politics, body-swapping, and powerful gerontocrat.

Super-brief notes after the jump:

Wiscon Recap- Hive Mind!

I had this song going in my head throughout the panel. Give it a listen, it's only 7 seconds. Bless you, TMBG.

The panel: Group, Individual, Hive Mind. The panelists:

• Annalee Newitz (@Annaleen): Founder of io9, tech culture editor at Ars Technica, writer, and contributor all over the place.
• Grá Linnaea (@gralinnaea): Weird fiction writer, editor for Shimmer Magazine.
• Benjamin Rosenbaum (@ben_rosenbaum): Writer of many great things.
• Isabel Schechter: active fan and essayist, Bible scholar.
• R. Elena Tabachnik: PhD evolutionary biologist and writer.

So this panel was a blast, and the room was packed! Super-brief notes, and then all the suggested works that I managed to scribble down: