| Description |
1 sound file : digital. |
| Series |
Kovacs |
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Morgan, Richard K., 1965-
Kovacs.
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| Note |
Downloadable audio file. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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System requirements: Ingram Media Manager (file size: 176815692 bytes). |
| Note |
Title from title screen (viewed June 4, 2010). |
| Access |
Digital content provided by Ingram Digital; access may be restricted to users at participating institutions. |
| Performer |
Read by Todd McLaren. |
| Note |
Unabridged. |
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Duration: 13 hr., 39 min. |
| Summary |
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats "existence" as something that can be bought and sold. For Kovacs, the shell that blew a hole in his chest was only the beginning. ... "Morgan's debut novel, the first in a series, combines noir mystery with ultra-high tech science to create a complex sf thriller. Featuring a hard-nosed antihero with his own sense of personal honor and ethics, this is highly recommended for sf collections."--Library Journal. |
| Subject |
Private investigators -- Fiction.
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Soldiers of fortune -- Fiction.
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Interstellar travel -- Fiction.
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Genetic engineering -- Fiction.
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
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Genetic engineering. (OCoLC)fst00940027
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Interstellar travel. (OCoLC)fst00977550
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Private investigators. (OCoLC)fst01077503
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Soldiers of fortune. (OCoLC)fst01125334
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California -- San Francisco.
(OCoLC)fst01204481
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| Genre/Form |
Science fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726489
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Science fiction.
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| Added Author |
McLaren, Todd Parker. Narrator.
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Ingram Digital (Firm)
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| Other Form: |
Original 1400151376 9781400151370 (OCoLC)61662465 |
| ISBN |
9781400121373 |
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140012137X |
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