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Altered Carbon
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
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Agreed. I consider Market Forces and Thirteen(The Black Man) his best novels.
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Grim1
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Really looking forward this. Was starting to wonder if my Netflix sub was worth it. I just don't care about most of their series (Amazon's are worse).
Read one (or two?) of the books a few years ago. Pretty good.
The pics and production look awesome. Perfectly aligned with the kind of stuff I tend to want to watch.
Read one (or two?) of the books a few years ago. Pretty good.
The pics and production look awesome. Perfectly aligned with the kind of stuff I tend to want to watch.
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Zapatta
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They need to have more hot shit in the pipe to justify the announced bump in their rates.
Marco Polo was super expensive and season 2 was lack luster. The Hundred Eyes origin story one-shot was better than S2.
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I really got into Marco Polo and then they cancelled it like a week after I had just finished season 2.
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Zapatta
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I really liked S1. S2 was just OK. I would have been in for an S3. But that wouldnt have happened anyway after Weinstein Co imploded.
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Kovaks
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So excited my balls can't wait
There is follow up to black man coming soon, set in the same universe but further in the future
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Evernothing
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Netflix and Amazon series are worth the subscriptions alone but Marco Polo was the worst by far. They somehow managed to turn one of the most fascinating periods full of political intrigue into the dullest show imaginable.
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I really like the first book in this series. The other 2, less so, but they're still not bad.
The look of that trailer seems a bit too clean somehow, too antiseptic; at least compared to how I pictured the world the author was describing. Altered Carbon the book is more Noir detective genre, much less cyberpunk. For instance it's got the old noir/detective classic trope of "whenever the hero goes anywhere to investigate something, he's immediately accosted by random thugs who try to kill him, even though he doesn't know them or why they want him dead." I swear it happens every time Kovacs goes ANYWHERE, and it's almost lulzy how often it happens.
There's some great concepts to work with here though, lots of potential to make this into a great sci-fi series. I wouldn't even be that mad if they strayed from the book's plot a little, as long as they kept the main concepts of the setting intact. There's few books that I really like where I would say that, but I think this is one of those cases where the characters and the setting and concepts are so much more interesting than the plot.
The look of that trailer seems a bit too clean somehow, too antiseptic; at least compared to how I pictured the world the author was describing. Altered Carbon the book is more Noir detective genre, much less cyberpunk. For instance it's got the old noir/detective classic trope of "whenever the hero goes anywhere to investigate something, he's immediately accosted by random thugs who try to kill him, even though he doesn't know them or why they want him dead." I swear it happens every time Kovacs goes ANYWHERE, and it's almost lulzy how often it happens.
There's some great concepts to work with here though, lots of potential to make this into a great sci-fi series. I wouldn't even be that mad if they strayed from the book's plot a little, as long as they kept the main concepts of the setting intact. There's few books that I really like where I would say that, but I think this is one of those cases where the characters and the setting and concepts are so much more interesting than the plot.
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khorum
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I know you're more invested in Altered Carbon, and it's moot since the show is due out soon... but you'd have to admit Black Man/Thirteen is BY FAR his better work.
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So, I read the Kovach books, and they are some of my favorites ever. I realize they might not be the best 'writing' ever, but I love the hardcore sci fi, high technology, cyberpunk style.. and these were the best I'd read since Neuromancer (my favorite) to scratch that itch. Other 'cyberpunk' genre stuff isn't always set in a far future with advanced tech. Like, tech that is almost magic with how advanced it is.
Are any of the other ones he wrote in the same universe as the kovach books by chance? Or, as similarly advanced technologically, just different?
Are any of the other ones he wrote in the same universe as the kovach books by chance? Or, as similarly advanced technologically, just different?
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