TV #26 of 2020: Altered Carbon, season 2 I still have some issues with the logic of this sci-fi series, from the frequent foolishness of its elite super-soldiers to the persistence of sexism centuries after humans have started casually swapping their minds from body to body. (If anything, that decoupling of mental and physical should …
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TV Review: Altered Carbon, season 1
TV #27 of 2018: Altered Carbon, season 1 On the one hand, this series is based on a book that would be pretty hard to present faithfully on television, and I think the show writers have made a lot of really smart adaptation choices in how they handle that material. I’d also say that the …
Book Review: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Book #79 of 2018: Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs #1) This hardboiled science-fiction novel is rich in premise and atmosphere, and I’m looking forward to seeing what the recent Netflix adaptation has done with both. The story is a fairly straightforward noir investigation — and unfortunately comes with the oversexualization of women …
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