Richard k morgan earned his reputation with altered carbon and a well deserved reputation it is a genre breaking hardboiled noir murder mystery with body swap identity crises and plenty of ingenious gadgetry thats used and abused in the service of mass slaughter and cyberpunk adventure. Wow its no wonder richard k morgan became such a phenomenon in the science fiction world so quickly his first novel altered carbon is so well crafted that it bears no hints of being a first novel his imagination and story telling is absolutely amazing. Richard k morgan altered carbon is the name of author richard k morgans cyberpunk book series and the title of the first book in the series the series has a total of three books altered carbon broken angels and woken furies immortality