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Discussion on: Which modern fiction presents the most interesting techno-dystopia?

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Matthew Daly

Altered Carbon, both the book and the Netflix series.

It portrays a future where implants called cortical stacks mean that minds can be transferred between bodies. Wealthy people can afford remote backups and clone bodies, while poorer people have to make for with whatever broken down body is available, and the punishment for many crimes is to be stored for a length of time and your body sold off.

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Kit McCormick

Loved Richard Morgan's series. Have you read Thin Air?

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Matthew Daly

I have, and really enjoyed it. I also read Black Man/Thirteen (it was released under two different names), an earlier novel in the same universe, which is also good.