The books are worth reading.

If you're interested in "people upload their conciousness" you might want to read some of Greg Egan's stuff. He's done a wider range, covering more situations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_uploading_in_fiction

> The fiction of Greg Egan has explored many of the philosophical, ethical, legal, and identity aspects of mind transfer, as well as the financial and computing aspects (i.e. hardware, software, processing power) of maintaining "copies." In Egan's Permutation City (1994), Diaspora (1997) and Zendegi (2010), "copies" are made by computer simulation of scanned brain physiology. See also Egan's "jewelhead" stories, where the mind is transferred from the organic brain to a small, immortal backup computer at the base of the skull, the organic brain then being surgically removed.

On reddit there is some kind of consensus that the series is great up until around episode 7, when it gets from bad to worse.

I personally did read about half the book until I lost interest. So I guess the series and the book have that in common. Anyway, from what I've read the series is more or less true to the book, except from episode 7 when even I could notice some major differences (mainly the nature and motivations of the envoys).

I completely agree with the first sentence. I actually had to make an effort to watch it past the middle, where the writing gets really bad. (I stuck with it because i'm a cyberpunk fan, your mileage may vary)

The book is no masterpiece, not by a longshot, but it's a fun read and I think it's miles better than the show.

Yeah they kind of added CTAC that kind of acts like the Envoys did in the book. I see why they did it though it gave them a way to work in more backstory and info on the Quellists that the book didn't really get into iirc.

It's worth reading if you like the cyberpunk genre for sure.

I thought the book was 3rd rate "genre" (in the worst way) fiction.