altered carbon took place in the year 2384.
altered carbon took place in the year 2384.
altered carbon what year does it take place?
2384
the series takes place over 360 years in the future, with most episodes set in the year 2384, in a futuristic metropolis known as bay city. in the future, a person's memories and consciousness can be decanted in a disk-shaped device called a "cortical stack", which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck. these storage devices are of alien design and have been reverse engineered and mass produced. physical human or synthetic bodies are called "sleeves" and stacks can be transferred to new bodies after death, but a person can still be killed if their stack is destroyed. while this theoretically means anyone can live forever, only the wealthiest, known as "meths" in reference to methuselah, have the means to do so through clones and remote storage of their consciousness in satellites.
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altered carbon is a 2002 science fiction novel by british writer richard k. morgan. set in a future in which interstellar travel is facilitated by transferring consciousnesses between bodies ("sleeves"), it follows the attempt of takeshi kovacs, a former u.n. elite soldier turned private investigator, to investigate a rich man's death. it is followed by the sequels "broken angels" and "woken furies".









































the book was adapted as a netflix television series, also titled "altered carbon", in 2018.









































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