Popular Sci-Fi Book ALTERED CARBON Being Developed Into Netflix Series
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Among its list of original content for 2016, Netflix announced today they would be adapting the popular science fiction series Altered Carbon into a series (via Variety). Here's a quick synopsis via Wikipedia...
Altered Carbon is a 2002 hardboiled cyberpunk science fiction novel by Richard K. Morgan. Set some five hundred years in the future in a universe in which the United Nations Protectorate oversees a number of extrasolar planets settled by human beings, it features Takeshi Kovacs as a former U.N. elite soldier and a native of Harlan's World, a planet settled by a Japanese keiretsu with Eastern European labour.
Just reading enough into the plot before I spoiled myself, it sounds really interesting. The series at it's roots will deal with the ability to live indefinitely through the process of "resleeving." The book explores the physical and moral implications of the human body living well past it's typical age, and it's essentially the basis of the story. While I did roll my eyes a bit at the sight of "dystopian" in the part I read, this book won the Phillip K. Dick award back in its day, so it should be a pretty good watch.
Fans of the series, do you care to weigh in? You think Netflix is up to the challenge of making this a series?