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SciFi- agent rebooted with no memory solves weird crimes.
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This might possibly be a confused memory of John Varley's collection The Barbie Murders (aka Picnic on Nearside) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...The stories aren't all involving the same protagonists, but they have the same setting - a Moon colony where you can get any kind of plastic surgery you can imagine and recording your memories to get them put in a clone in case you die is normal. One story involves someone waking up in their clone body to find out their original self was murdered, but since their last memory backup was months before they've got no idea who might have done it or why.
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This is a real longshot as I don't recall anything about it including long-lived elites, nor the male genitalia mentioned. But, I read it a while ago so could simply not be remembering it. But it is science fiction, has an agent working on various assignments, and thanks to the hypnotic overlays does not remember from mission to mission. I might try:
All My Sins Remembered by Joe Haldeman.
Excerpt from the description is below:
"Otto McGavin is peacefully idealistic by nature, an Anglo-Buddhist, who seeks employment with the Confederacion because he believes in its mission to protect human & nonhuman rights. The only problem is that the Confederacion needs him as one of its twelve Prime Operators for its secret service, the TBII. The TBII wants him as a spy, thief & assassin. It's not, of course, a problem for the Confederacion, which simply uses immersion therapy & hypnotic personality overlay for Otto's training, then sends him out in deep cover, encased in plastiflesh, on a variety of dangerous missions on a number of bizarre worlds. But for him, it's a different matter: what he has to witness & what he's forced to do take a terrible toll. Always he returns to his original self--his conscience stabbed by the memory of all those he'd killed in the service of interstellar harmony. "
Brad wrote: "This is a real longshot as I don't recall anything about it including long-lived elites, nor the male genitalia mentioned. But, I read it a while ago so could simply not be remembering it. But it i..."This is also a book that came to my mind.
SciFi- agent rebooted with no memory solves weird crimes bump.
Similar to altered carbon(but Not it!!) About a detective/agent (she thinks his name is agent some number which changes every time he dies) who keeps regenerating without the memories of his previous reboots.
The people who run the city are some sort of elite group of very young looking eternal youth types.
There's also a crime.scene where someone has a "male genitalia" for a mouth or in his mouth?