Altered Carbon

This must have been one of the first things I watched on Netflix, as I can remember quite a lot of it, but it was several years ago and I think that I must’ve watched it on an iPad, as the big wall TV in the den is fairly recent. I’m not sure that I made it to the end originally, and certainly the smaller screen took away much of the impact and my understanding, because it is only on this rewatch that I have appreciated just how good it is! Also read the book, but that was even longer ago, and I’ve given it away since, so I can’t really comment on how accurately it follows the novel, but it works exceptionally well on its own merits anyway. The basic premise is the same – mind states stored in a disc at the top of the spine mean that personalities can be moved between bodies, clones and synthetic beings, as well as being stored and transmitted interstellar distances. In order to keep the rest of the setting to a manageable level, this technology was left behind by an alien…