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Altered Carbon: where to start reading
Adapts Takeshi Kovacs by Richard K. Morgan. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
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2 seasons
on screen
3 books
to read
Diverges
from the books
After Season 1, in the books you are
at Altered Carbon.
through the end of the first novel.
The first season is based on Richard K. Morgan's first novel, Altered Carbon, and follows it across its run.
Start reading at Altered Carbon (the first novel)
Spoiler-safe, only what the show already showed you.
Get the book
Season 1 draws on this book. Read the full story:
Altered Carbon
Richard K. Morgan · Book 1 of 3
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What the show changed here
- ChangedThe novel's hotel AI Hendrix is re-skinned as Poe, in the likeness of Edgar Allan Poe, after the Hendrix estate declined a licence.
- ChangedThe Envoys are reframed from elite Protectorate soldiers in the book into anti-authority rebels in the show.
- InventedDetective Ortega, a late-arriving figure in the novel, is expanded and interwoven with Kovacs from the start on screen.
- InventedBancroft's children, only mentioned in the book, are given real on-screen scenes and subplots.
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Season 1 faithfully adapts the first novel, Altered Carbon. Season 2 does not adapt any single later book: it takes a handful of elements from the second and third novels (Broken Angels and Woken Furies) and builds an otherwise original story, so it is not a clean adaptation of either.
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