Altered Carbon
It’s the twenty-fifth century in San Francisco and advances in technology have redefined life itself. A person’s consciousness can now be stored in the brain and downloaded into a new body (or “sleeve”), making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Onetime U.N. Envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Resleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats existence as something that can be bought and sold. The actual design elements of the book aren’t overly clogged down by the bigger science fiction pseudo-science of the stored consciousness and the body switching. At its heart, it plays out more like a film noir detective story set in another time period.
My proposed set will be ‘The Hendrix’ Hotel which Takeshi Kovacs stays in for the duration of the book this is a recurring location
The Lobby of the Hendrix hotel showing the aftermath of the security intrusion as the hotel defends itself from an unwanted guest. Normality is quickly restored as the cleaning robots are sent out.
The Speedy Diner sits in a forgotten corner of the lobby. The automated bar and food ordering system sits in a state of partial repair as its insides are scattered across the room.
The Hotels bar is suddenly awoken at the arrival of its only guests the lights turn on and the robotic bar tender awaits to pour from dusty bottles of long forgotten scotch.
The penthouse suite provides the base for the protagonist as he makes himself comfor table and spreads
his work across the room.