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I'm midway through Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. It's science-fiction noir with a hard-boiled slant. It's the first of a trilogy and the basic technological gimmick is Human Digital Storage. Human bodies are known as "sleeves" which are basically interchangeable. Males can be sleeved in female bodies and vice-versa. Each sleeve has a "stack" embedded in the spine which stores the personality and memories of the "person". Some wealthy people have remote backup and storage arrangements so they effectively become immortal. Others have just one stack which can be destroyed. Takeshi Kovacs is brought to Earth out of offworld storage to investigate the murder of a rich man's sleeve.
I'm enjoying it a lot. Morgan has a gift for writing about violence and an interesting take on a dystopia. He's also written a couple of fantasy novels with a homosexual protagonist. Interesting guy.
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