Takeshi Kovacs is excited to get started with the investigation. Well, not really. But he’s all in regardless, even if it means putting up with Laurens Bancroft’s condescending attorney, Oumou Prescott, and other various and sundry assistants and helpers who see him as something to be scraped from their shoes. A quick trip to Psychasec…

Welcome to Altered Carbon, to a dark, distant future where the rich live forever and the poor are expendable in ways we could never imagine. Thanks to alien technology, mankind has learned how to store their minds…their essences if you will…in devices called stacks and every child is implanted with a stack at 1 year…