Changed CARBON is set in a future where cognizance is digitized and put away in cortical stacks embedded in the spine, permitting people to endure actual demise by having their recollections and awareness “re-sleeved” into new bodies. The story follows exceptionally prepared “Emissary” warrior Takeshi Kovacs, who is downloaded from an off-world jail and into a battle prepared sleeve at the command of Laurens Bancroft, a profoundly powerful blue-blood.