I just finished reading Richard K. Morgan's Broken Angels, the second in his Takeshi Kovacs series. This novel focused on Kovacs running a mission to a Martian spaceship while a war is going on a remote planet. I won't go into the details of the novel but I enjoyed while the novel had cool wiz-bank military technology, Morgan emphasises a futuristic extension of modern budo into a battled-trained warrior like Kovacs.
Another technology theme through the novel is the idea of digital consciousness that backups all of the memories and consciousness in capsule embedded in the base of the skull. If your current body (called a sleeve) dies and the capsule is intact, your consciousness can be transferred to another cloned body of yourself or someone else. During the time period of the novel's setting, this technology has been around for centuries allowing for a kind of immortality. In Broken Angels, Kovacs's current sleeve is a genetic optimized warrior model. Such an effect of conditionally eliminating death in a society would change some things but the underlying violence of humans still persists as I think is one of the main points of the novel. I ordered the last book of Kovacs trilogy from Marmot.
Today, I went over the the Gunnison Community Center at 2:00 in case anyone showed up for Aikido class. I waited around for about 15 minutes and left after nobody did. I finished my novel when I got back. It rained and snowed today but I hoping that the weather will left tomorrow so I can go fishing.
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