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SOLVED. Science fiction mystery In the future on Mars? A P.I hired by woman to find her missing husband People can transfer their consciousness into cyborg or is a android body into order to extend theirs lives. [s]
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They moved to Mars many years ago hoping to make their fortune in mining. They split up after their baby girl named Jo Beth died from SIDS. Has an adult son Spoiler Alert! The son smothered the baby when he was four with a pillow case, because he was jealous that his parents weren't giving him any attention between the mining and the new baby. He couldn't stop the mining but he could stop his sister. His parents never got over their daughter's death and eventually separated
After the mother went through the transfer and thus was going to live longer the son couldn't live with the guilt any more so he killed her too. Spoiler End
Red Planet Blues (2013) by Robert J. Sawyer features a noir-type detective named Alex Lomax, the only private eye on Mars. This book is too recent, but Lomax appears in at least one other Sawyer story (Identity Theft).


You might want to contact the author. Robert J. Sawyer's email link is on this blog - http://sfwriter.com/blog/
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I'll switch the book in the bookshelf to Identity Theft and Other Stories by Robert J. Sawyer which includes the short story "Biding Time".
I'll switch the book in the bookshelf to Identity Theft and Other Stories by Robert J. Sawyer which includes the short story "Biding Time".
Books mentioned in this topic
Identity Theft and Other Stories (other topics)Identity Theft (other topics)
Red Planet Blues (other topics)
Authors mentioned in this topic
Robert J. Sawyer (other topics)Robert J. Sawyer (other topics)
Robert J. Sawyer (other topics)
Format anthology of other sci-fi stories
I think that is was written by a classic science fiction writer
In the future on Mars? A P.I hired by woman to find her missing husband
People can transfer their consciousness into cyborg or is a android body into order to extend theirs lives. It's a very expensive procedure that is also a controversial one. The detective's friend whose father was a priest worries about what will happen to people souls after the transfer of consciousness.
There's also something about a man who after his transfer somebody made a duplicate of him. Why? Because he had discover a mine that was full of...Whatever is valuable in the future. Worth a lot of money. But the location is a secret.
Detective thinks that the duplicate was made so somebody could question the doppelganger without the police finding out that he was missing. The original wants the duplicate destroy.
SPOILER WARNING Husband was never missing, husband uploaded himself into his wife new body. Wife conscious destroyed by husband. Hubby made duplicate so that he could torture the duplicate for information on where the mine is. Hired the detective to throw off suspicion from her/him, thought the police would figure him out. The duplicate is allowed to live by the detective unbeknownst to the original. End of spoiler
I also know that there is another book in the series. More on that later.