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Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
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Where have I seen this before...
We Are Legion - We Are Bob (Bobiverse #1) by Dennis E. Taylor
Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.
Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.
The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.
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Perhaps. I've made this comparison because I've recently read We Are Legion - We Are Bob
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I hope so :)
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That sounds good.
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Thanks for the comment. It looks the novel is more interesting than I thought it to be.
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Iain Banks's Feersum Endjinn has some of the same elements, particularly a character's [Bascule's] ability to enter the world of code, in part to effect change in the ordinary world because of the accelerated time.
Charlie Houston's Sleepless has a secondary theme involving a scheme to generate income by converting digital treasure in an online game into cash--parallels to Reamde.
Though not technically the same digital environment, the world of literary detection in Jasper Fforde's Thursday Next series shares a non-quantum kind of parallel worlds, starting with the narrative of Jane Eyre in The Eyre Affair.
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I disagree. ANATHEM is my favorite of his oeuvre.