Takeshi Kovacs

series of books by Richard K Morgan http://www.richardkmorgan.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeshi_Kovacs

Altered Carbon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altered_Carbon

BrokenAngels http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broken_Angels

WokenFuries http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woken_Furies

consciousness can be uploaded and transported digitally, but not much other Singularity stuff to it

soaking in political philosophy of Quellism