Timeline for 1990's book featuring a Galactic Empire Without Faster-Than-Light Travel
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| Apr 19, 2020 at 14:54 | comment | added | KerrAvon2055 | Are you certain there is no FTL? Plot sounds very like the Traveller RPG novel Agent of the Imperium by Marc Miller. Universe has FTL travel, but no FTL comms except messages carried by ships. This leads to months of communication lag between the capital and the frontier, hence lots of authority granted to a high ranking agent on the spot. | |
| Apr 19, 2020 at 6:46 | comment | added | SGarceau | I'm looking for this book too! The guy is less tech support and more a judge though, he's a copy of a high ranking government/planetary official who we meet in flashbacks. He uses the technology to basically stay immortal. While copies of him are flying around space, judging these off-world human colonies and he has the power (through his ship) to wipe the whole planet clean of people. And it has NOTHING to do with stacks - it's not "Altered Carbon". | |
| Apr 7, 2014 at 15:22 | comment | added | samwyse | Nope, no "sleeve" bodies, there's a scene where the process is described; the AI builds the person from the inside out in a fraction of a second. And as I mentioned, the AI adapts the body for the location's gravity, atmosphere, etc., and can also, if needed, edit memories. [Spoiler] In one scene, the AI explains to the newly restored protagonist that he has been rebuilt from a backup copy, with memories added from the badly damaged version just recovered. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 21:41 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 6 | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 20:53 | history | edited | samwyse |
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| Apr 3, 2014 at 12:36 | comment | added | Alex K. | Sounds similar-ish to the Takeshi Kovaks novels (Altered Carbon) "Envoy" mercenaries are digitally stored, shipped elsewhere then downloaded into "Sleeve" bodies | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 3:49 | comment | added | HorusKol | maybe details about the other book might help identify the author? | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 3:43 | comment | added | samwyse | Good guess, but it's not him. (Although you did have me tracking down several leads in Wikipedia.) i'm pretty sure that the author of this book only wrote one other science fiction novel, but both of them were IMHO pretty good. I thought that it might have been "Courtship Rite", but it turns out not to have been Donald Kingsbury. | |
| Apr 3, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | HorusKol | This kind of sounds like it could be Peter F Hamilton - but not any of the ones I've actually read... | |
| Apr 2, 2014 at 19:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/451448926030540800 | ||
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| Apr 2, 2014 at 19:35 | history | asked | samwyse | CC BY-SA 3.0 |