The Takeshi Kovacs trilogy: Altered Carbon, Broken Angels, Woken Furies, by Richard Morgan This is the big one, so far as EP goes. Here we have cortical stacks (the original source of the term), uploading, resleeving (also, as far as I know, the original source of the term), farcasting, emergency farcasters (again, likewise), forking is illegal, but it still happens, psychosurgery, simulspaces, simulspace acceleration, simulspace torture, religious objections to backups, and the relentless drum of technological progress being used both to improve things and as an instrument of oppression. Humanity can reach very, very high... but our lowest are no higher in these future worlds than they are now. What I find fascinating is that, as much as Takeshi is a badass, he's hardly a Sue; he gets in waaaay over his head, often ends up with some fairly serious enemies, and he faced with opponents to match himself or that make him look like a chump. In Real Life and modern fiction, he'd be absurdly overpowered--by the standards of his own setting, he's skilled, he's elite, but he's hardly a god. Heck, our first introduction to him is him getting taken down by a strike team. And, for all of that, for all of his near-immortality and centuries of experience (especially by the third novel), he's still very human; he loves, he hates, he has principles, he does charity and revenge, which makes him very relatable, insofar as someone that is a trained and seasoned covert ops soldier, assassin and resleever can be, by our standards. The setting is fun; weary idealism, oppression and charity, oligarchs and the dreams of self-determination, living forever and the pleasures of the moment, all seen through the lens of a damaged and weary man who made a life-defining choice while in the grips of teenaged hormones. So, who else had read it, and what did you think?