Kalogridis explained why: She felt she was 'f***ing crazy' for trying to adapt Altered Carbon in the first place, and wasn't confident that she'd ever get a Season 2. In addition, the show combines two characters from the books-Kovacs' Envoy leader, Virginia Vidaura, and Quellcrist Falconer, a semi-mystical historical figure who becomes more important in later books. Protectorate, Altered Carbon's galaxy-spanning government. In the book, the Envoys are a special forces branch of the U.N. In the show, Kovacs is the last remaining Envoy-a highly trained group of guerrilla rebels based on Kovacs' home, Harlan's World. The changes to the Envoys' backstory are more complex.

You know, 'Ask this of your microwave, miscreant!' I mean, who gets to write that stuff? So fun!' The Envoys: Rebellion or Protectorate Special Forces? I love his writing, I love his voice-the things we could write for him that did not feel like they belonged in the future were really a great pleasure. 'It really was just looking at it going, 'You know, father of the modern detective story, I mean, who can you think of who's about as far from Jimi Hendrix as you can get-let's just go the opposite direction!' and that's where Poe came from,' she said. 'They took one look at the script-and they were very polite-and they were like, 'We're afraid this doesn't really meet our standards.' I mean, and they're right it does not. ' has very specific rules about how much violence can be associated with any character that looks like Jimi Hendrix, and as you might have noticed, there's a lot of violence ,' Kalogridis told GameSpot. That last one-why Kovacs stays at The Raven in the show instead of the book's Hendrix-is the easiest to answer.

It turns out Kalogridis did indeed have her reasons for making these changes, and she was kind enough to elaborate on them for GameSpot. Why did the Envoys' backstory change? Why was Lizzie Elliott's role expanded so profoundly? Why does Kovacs stay at The Raven instead of The Hendrix? Given how much thought clearly went into this show, we figured there must be good reasons for all the other changes, too. The show's writer, executive producer, and showrunner, Laeta Kalogridis, told io9 about one major change-the decision to leave protagonist Takeshi Kovacs in his own sleeve during the torture scene, rather than putting him in the body of a young girl. Now Playing: Altered Carbon: 5 Biggest Book To Show Changes By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's

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