UNCANNIES is a collection of stories about brilliant machines and hopeful, enduring humans.
Each world has its rules and unimpeachable logic. Bodies are built from small parts and algorithms drawn around a steady red heart. No soul can be stored like a computer program or a ligh-long diary. An authentic consciousness, once born, must live at some state of being, if only sleeping inside a dark file or in the covers of a warm bed. And when it dies, only a gross approximation of the original soul can be reborn again. By cloning or digital retrieval, the process is limited. Death is Death. And what is lost is always lost forever.
--from "555"
Robert Reed has published hundreds of science fiction stories. He won a Hugo Award for his novella, "A Billion Eves," but Reed is best known for his Great Ship stories.
Genre: Science Fiction
Each world has its rules and unimpeachable logic. Bodies are built from small parts and algorithms drawn around a steady red heart. No soul can be stored like a computer program or a ligh-long diary. An authentic consciousness, once born, must live at some state of being, if only sleeping inside a dark file or in the covers of a warm bed. And when it dies, only a gross approximation of the original soul can be reborn again. By cloning or digital retrieval, the process is limited. Death is Death. And what is lost is always lost forever.
--from "555"
Robert Reed has published hundreds of science fiction stories. He won a Hugo Award for his novella, "A Billion Eves," but Reed is best known for his Great Ship stories.
Genre: Science Fiction
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