From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sat Aug 03 2002 - 23:32:04 MDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,746227,00.html
Not that this theme is even remotely new to anyone here, but its noteworthy
because its being turned into a film. A film, that is, with uploading as its
gimic or
mcguffin (as Hitchcock refered to it).
<<An English language teacher has landed a Hollywood deal which promises to
make him $1m (£656,000) in what is thought to be the biggest coup for a first
novel since The Horse Whisperer. Richard Morgan, 35, said to his publisher:
"You've got to be kidding" when told that Joel Silver, producer of The Matrix
and Die Hard, had bought his sci-fi novel Altered Carbon. Mr Morgan, who
teaches English to foreign language students at Strathclyde University, earns
£25,000 a year.
He is writing a sequel to Altered Carbon - a story previously rejected by
several London agents and publishers - but plans to keep his day job.
Yesterday his editor, Simon Spanton at Orion Publishing, said he was
"flabbergasted" when told the news. He added: "It's a little bit surreal for
me to get my head round". Altered Carbon chronicles a future in which the
immortal human soul can be downloaded into another body after death in a
process called "sleeving" - if its owner can afford this. A billionaire hires
special agent Takeshi Kovacs to investigate the murder of his previous
"sleeve". The blurb says: "Kovacs is drawn into a dark and deadly game in a
world that has forgotten how to value life." >>
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