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<blockquote data-quote="SoonerP226" data-source="post: 3940076" data-attributes="member: 26737"><p>I don't see it in here, so I'll add <em>Altered Carbon</em> by Richard K. Morgan. It's hard sc-fi, about a future where a person's "consciousness" is loaded into a device called a "cortical stack" ("stack" for short) at the base of the brain, which can then be downloaded into a body (called a "sleeve"). Humanity has colonized other star systems through the use of wormholes, and the UN keeps the peace with sleeves kept in storage on the far-flung planets and elite troops, called Envoys, whose stacks can be downloaded to them and be ready to fight in a matter of hours (despite the wormholes, there's no FTL transportation).</p><p></p><p>The protagonist, Takahashi Kovacs, was formerly one of those Envoys who is now living on the other side of the law. At the beginning of the story, he was killed and sentenced to long-term stack storage (basically, limbo), but a very rich and powerful man pulls strings to get him out and hire him as a private investigator to investigate his (the rich man's) murder. The rich man was murdered in a way that destroyed the stack in his sleeve, and he had to have his stack restored from a backup, so he has no memory of the murder or the events immediately preceding it.</p><p></p><p>It's not for the kids--there's a scene that can best be described as pornographic, a scene where Tak is re-sleeved into a woman's body and tortured, and an implied scene of disgusting deviancy (even by today's standards of normalized deviancy), but it's a pretty decent mystery and tackles some interesting concepts and ideas about what it means to be human in a world where you could conceivably become immortal or inhabit the body of another.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SoonerP226, post: 3940076, member: 26737"] I don't see it in here, so I'll add [I]Altered Carbon[/I] by Richard K. Morgan. It's hard sc-fi, about a future where a person's "consciousness" is loaded into a device called a "cortical stack" ("stack" for short) at the base of the brain, which can then be downloaded into a body (called a "sleeve"). Humanity has colonized other star systems through the use of wormholes, and the UN keeps the peace with sleeves kept in storage on the far-flung planets and elite troops, called Envoys, whose stacks can be downloaded to them and be ready to fight in a matter of hours (despite the wormholes, there's no FTL transportation). The protagonist, Takahashi Kovacs, was formerly one of those Envoys who is now living on the other side of the law. At the beginning of the story, he was killed and sentenced to long-term stack storage (basically, limbo), but a very rich and powerful man pulls strings to get him out and hire him as a private investigator to investigate his (the rich man's) murder. The rich man was murdered in a way that destroyed the stack in his sleeve, and he had to have his stack restored from a backup, so he has no memory of the murder or the events immediately preceding it. It's not for the kids--there's a scene that can best be described as pornographic, a scene where Tak is re-sleeved into a woman's body and tortured, and an implied scene of disgusting deviancy (even by today's standards of normalized deviancy), but it's a pretty decent mystery and tackles some interesting concepts and ideas about what it means to be human in a world where you could conceivably become immortal or inhabit the body of another. [/QUOTE]
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