<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Website </Td> </Tr> <P> Altered Carbon is an American dystopian science fiction cyberpunk web television series created by Laeta Kalogridis and based on the 2002 novel of the same title by English author Richard K. Morgan . The first season consists of ten episodes and premiered on Netflix on February 2, 2018 . </P> <P> The series takes place over 250 years in the future, in the year 2384 . In the future, a person's memories can be decanted in a disk - shaped device called a cortical stack, which is implanted in the vertebrae at the back of the neck . These storage devices are of alien design and have been reverse engineered and mass produced . Physical human or synthetic bodies called "sleeves" are used as vessels that can accept any stack . Takeshi Kovacs (Joel Kinnaman), a political operative with mercenary skills, wakes up 250 years after his previous sleeve is terminated . He is given the choice to either spend the rest of time in prison for his crimes, or to help solve the murder of Laurens Bancroft (James Purefoy), one of the wealthiest men in the settled worlds . Takeshi was the sole surviving soldier of those defeated in an uprising against the new world order 250 years prior . </P> <Ul> <Li> Joel Kinnaman as Takeshi Kovacs </Li> <Li> James Purefoy as Laurens Bancroft </Li> <Li> Martha Higareda as Kristin Ortega </Li> <Li> Chris Conner as Edgar Poe </Li> <Li> Dichen Lachman as Reileen Kawahara </Li> <Li> Ato Essandoh as Vernon Elliot </Li> <Li> Kristin Lehman as Miriam Bancroft </Li> <Li> Trieu Tran as Mister Leung </Li> <Li> Renée Elise Goldsberry as Quellcrist Falconer </Li> </Ul>

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