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.
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.
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