Recommended Age:
18
+
Best for mature, independent readers who enjoy fast-paced, immersive cyberpunk with complex moral dilemmas.
About the Book
In a future where human consciousness can be stored digitally and transferred between bodies, former soldier and criminal Takeshi Kovacs is resleeved into a new body to solve what the police ruled a suicide but the victim was so rich he could afford to be reborn, so the question is why he would want to die. A noir detective novel with extreme body horror and graphic violence set in a world where death is temporary but physical suffering is very real. A relentlessly dark and inventive cyberpunk thriller.
Content Ratings
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Intense Themes
This book is a sustained exploration of what personhood means when the body is merely a vehicle, the economic stratification of who gets to live forever, corporate violence as normalized behavior, and the psychological cost of a world where bodies are disposable.
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High Violence
Extreme violence is pervasive and graphically depicted throughout, including torture, combat, and the digital destruction of minds. Several scenes are described in unflinching physical detail.
