I heard about Altered Carbon in a discussion about real-life respawn. I immediately saved the book to my read list.

What I didn't expect was a book which discussed the subject lightly, while still being a great book and keeping me sticked to it 'till the end.

The book is about a future in which humans devise a method to store the human consciousness in an artefact which is implanted in to the base of the brain. With this, when you die, you could possibily be downloaded to a new body.

Enters Takeshi Kovacs, an Envoy who is hired by a very rich guy who thinks he didn't killed himself, and instead, was murdered.

To anyone who likes the cyberpunk genre, or the philosophical implications of being able to be downloaded to other bodies, a must-read.