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I started this book years ago, and didn't get very far in before I gave up on it. I thought it was just cheesy, grimdark cyberpunk. I'm glad I came back to it. Turns out it's a cracking noir detective story, wrapped up in the sleeve of cheesy, grimdark cyberpunk. It's dated in places and irritatingly preachy at times, but overall it's a great blend of noir & sci-fi. The audiobook was quite good, too.
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"As I advanced into the room, he glanced up.
"Jack? YOu finished al---" He stared at the gun in my hands without comprehension, then as the muzzle came to within half a meter of his face a note of asperity crept into his voice. "Listen, I didn't dial for this routine."
"On the house," I said dispassionately, and watched as the clutch of monomolecular shards tore his face apart. His hands flew up from between his legs to cover the wounds, and he flopped over sideways on the bed, gut-deep noises gri ...more
"Jack? YOu finished al---" He stared at the gun in my hands without comprehension, then as the muzzle came to within half a meter of his face a note of asperity crept into his voice. "Listen, I didn't dial for this routine."
"On the house," I said dispassionately, and watched as the clutch of monomolecular shards tore his face apart. His hands flew up from between his legs to cover the wounds, and he flopped over sideways on the bed, gut-deep noises gri ...more
This is good sci-fi at its best. Morgan takes one little twist on our reality and then just runs with it, exploring all of its potential impacts. In this book, Morgan's twist is the concept of transferable consciousness, which allows a person's mind to be uploaded to a new body after death via a 'cortical stack'. What seemed (to me) to be a pretty simple premise explodes into a fascinating universe of possibilities. Morgan touches on how 're-sleeving' could affect religion, law enforcement, pros
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