Altered Carbon
Richard Morgan
A slick crime thriller in ‘cyberpunk’ clothes.
Takeshi Kovacs is an ex-Envoy who has had his mind transmitted halfway across the galaxy by an extremely rich man in his 300s who wants Kovacs to prove he didn’t commit suicide.
Central to this story is the idea that in the future everyone’s mind will be backed up to data storage either carried in the spine or remotely. That interstellar travel is best done by having minds transmitted by FTL communications and placing the mind in a new body or sleeve. That the wealthy can live a very long time by transferring their minds to a younger clone every so often.
I personally thought it was a lot of fun, but you need to have a tolerance for sex and violence.