When I was younger I read a lot of science fiction, I don't do it so much anymore and technically I didn't do it this time either but I did listen to a audio book called "We Are Legion We Are Bob" it's the first book of the Bobiverse trilogy and I really enjoyed it. You can get a free 5 minute sample of the book here:
We Are Legion (We Are Bob): Bobiverse, Book 1 <https://www.amazon.com/We-Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse/dp/B01L082SCI/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=> It tells the story of Bob, a young man who has just sold his software company for a crazy amount of money and decides that after a decade of hard work he's going to spent the rest of his life just goofing off. On a whim he signs with a Cryonics company to have his head frozen after his death and then just hours later while crossing the street to go to a science fiction convention is hit by a car and dies. Five subjective seconds later he wakes up and finds that a century has passed and he's been uploaded into a computer. This is all in the opening chapter. Parts of the story are unrealistic but parts of it are not, I think it was Isaac Asimov who said it's OK for a science fiction writer to violate the known laws of physics but only if he knows he's doing it, and when Dennis Taylor, the creator of Bob universe, does it at one point with faster than light communication it's obvious that he knowns it. And I can't deny it makes for a story that is more fun to read. I have now read (well listened) to all 3 Bob books and, although parts are a little corny and parts a little too Star Trek for my taste, on the whole I greatly enjoyed them all. They're a lot of fun. The only other novel I can think of that treats the subject of uploading with equal intelligence is "The Silicon Man". The Silicon Man by Charles Platt <https://www.amazon.com/Silicon-Man-Cortext-Charles-Platt/dp/1888869143> John K Clark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv3VFvfd0xUJ23D%3DPZ7PiWyZXiLsTx8_Q8hUWHDtkbOZ%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com.
