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Trope-a-Day: Brain Uploading
Brain Uploading: Pervasive and universal, just about. The Eldrae, after all, being naturally unaging, find the notion of accidental death rather unpleasant, and so took to this technological...
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Trope-a-Day: Brainwashed
Brainwashed: The jargon term is “edited into compliance”. With perverted sophotechnology – or its equivalent for pure-biologics – and the large pile of quantum supercomputers you need to defeat the...
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Just Another Day In Inplacement
“Got a good one for you!” “Why is it, Annis, that when you say ‘good one’, I hear ‘utter wire-and-tape job’?” “Couldn’t say, boss. Anyway, today’s case here-and-now one-thirteen. An infugee from the...
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Destructive Scan
“This didn’t come off a noetic bridge.” “Of course it — this is perfectly legiti –” “Rule number one: don’t fib to your reincarnator. You’re handing me this soph’s mind-state. If you can trust me with...
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Trope-a-Day: Do Androids Dream
Do Androids Dream: Souls Are Software Objects. Period. And are usually referred to as “mind-states”, unless we’re being poetic. (There are civilizations that do not agree with this. They are all, in...
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Trope-a-Day: Split Personality Merge
Split Personality Merge: Averted. You don’t try and merge two minds (an operation routinely carried out to remerge forks) while they’re running, seriously. This is a very complex operation carried...
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Trope-a-Day: Apocalyptic Log
Apocalyptic Log: A lot of the time, thanks to noetic backup technology and the ability to transmit mind-states out of all kinds of messily lethal situations, Apocalyptic Logs are the actual people...
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