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- Referencenod to comics or other movies
- Cameoa familiar face shows up
- Setupplanted now, pays off later
- Behind the scenesproduction trivia
- ChangeThe Envoys switch sides
In the book, the Envoys are the UN Protectorate's elite force, and Kovacs was locked up for crimes he committed after leaving it. In S1, the Envoys are rebels fighting the Protectorate, and Kovacs is a captured one.
source ↗ - ChangeReileen becomes his sister
In the book, Reileen Kawahara is a crime boss with no blood tie to Kovacs. On the show, she's his sister.
source ↗ - ChangeQuell instead of Virginia
In the book, Kovacs is trained by instructor Virginia Vidaura. The show hands that role to Quellcrist Falconer, who becomes the love of his life.
source ↗ - ChangeHendrix becomes Poe
The book's hotel has an AI inspired by Jimi Hendrix. In S1 it becomes the Raven, with an AI based on Edgar Allan Poe, because Hendrix's estate wouldn't license his image.
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- ReferenceOnly the title made it to the screen
The show skipped this book and went straight to Woken Furies material in S2. The title went to the season's final episode.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesCarrera's unit
S2 borrowed the Wedge, Colonel Carrera's unit, and its wolf-gene combat sleeves from this book.
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- ChangeWho shares the body
In the book, both minds in the same body are human, and Quell is the intruder. In S2, the body is Quell's, and what shares it with her is an Elder's consciousness.
source ↗ - ChangeA Quell built from several
The show's Quell blends several characters from the book: Nadia Makita, Virginia Vidaura and Sarah Sachilowska.
source ↗ - ChangeJack Soul Brasil gets a new role
In the book, he's a rebel surfer. In S2, he becomes the leader of the Renouncers.
source ↗ - ChangeThe shadow of Innenin
In the books, the battle of Innenin haunts Kovacs. In S2, Carrera introduces himself as the man who burned Innenin.
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