Published: May 27, 2011
Words: 124614 (approximate)
Language: English

Ebook short description

A poor white man has his brain transplanted into a black clone body, and becomes the most valuable commodity in a world where life-extension is the ultimate goal. The man, Zach Hemmings, becomes the unwitting subject of nanotechnology experiments to produce a youth serum. Whoever owns this fountain of youth will own the world. Zach doesn't like being experimented on and plans his escape.

Extended description

It's 2051 and humans live in space, while a nuclear war looms in Braku province, the last great free state on Earth. Cloning is commonplace as a means of life extension, by a method called a "Brainjob" - when you get old, move your brain into a new, brainless cloned body. It's almost a way to live forever for those with the means, but not true eternal life.

Zach Hemmings, a poor working man, is injured in an industrial accident. His body is destroyed, but his brain is still viable. Due to his lack of funds, he never had himself cloned, and has to accept the clone his medical insurance will pay for. He gets a clone of another race (his original body was white, the cloned body is black), which causes him massive identity issues, and lack of acceptance with many in his family. Zach becomes the subject of medical experiments by Unito Bio (they own his cloned body due to an underhanded copyright law) to produce an eternal-youth nanobot serum. The serum trials are successful for the first... (Read more) It's 2051 and humans live in space, while a nuclear war looms in Braku province, the last great free state on Earth. Cloning is commonplace as a means of life extension, by a method called a "Brainjob" - when you get old, move your brain into a new, brainless cloned body. It's almost a way to live forever for those with the means, but not true eternal life.

Zach Hemmings, a poor working man, is injured in an industrial accident. His body is destroyed, but his brain is still viable. Due to his lack of funds, he never had himself cloned, and has to accept the clone his medical insurance will pay for. He gets a clone of another race (his original body was white, the cloned body is black), which causes him massive identity issues, and lack of acceptance with many in his family. Zach becomes the subject of medical experiments by Unito Bio (they own his cloned body due to an underhanded copyright law) to produce an eternal-youth nanobot serum. The serum trials are successful for the first time, and only occur in Zach's unique bloodstream. He starts to get younger.

But Zach, tired of being a guinea pig, and disgusted at being owned, goes on the run. Unito has deep pockets, and they will stop at nothing to get back their property that has just become the most valuable thing in the world. Zach just wants to get himself back.

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Tags

cybernetics, cloning, nanotechnology, identity, cyberpunk, clones, cyber, dna, immortality, clone, transhumanism, bioengineering, nanobots, life extension, machine intelligence, synthetic biology

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Review by: alexx thirty-seven on July 20, 2011 :
Brilliant book, I loved it. I can predict what's going to happen in most of what I read. This book caught me off guard quite a few times and I really enjoyed that. I was a little sad when I finished it because there was no more left to read.
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