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dbcooper on March 24, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Rise of Dismal Science Fiction

Altered Carbon treats the brain as a computer that can have its hard drive swapped out. That's really stupid and a good reason to ignore it. It's also particularly poorly written.

Semaphor on March 24, 2018 [–]

> Altered Carbon treats the brain as a computer that can have its hard drive swapped out

To be fair, that's just magical alien technology. Humans don't even know how it works.

> It's also particularly poorly written.

The writing is not great but not horrible either. The plot is far ahead of the writing style though.

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