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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me"><h1>Julio Biason .Me 4.3</h1></a>
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<p class="lead">Old school dev living in a 2.0 dev world</p>
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<h1 class="post-title">Soulminder - Timothy Zahn</h1>
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2018-12-13
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/books/">#books</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/timothy-zahn/">#timothy zahn</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/scifi/">#scifi</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/stars-2/">#stars:2</a>
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<a href="https://blog.juliobiason.me/tags/published-2014/">#published:2014</a>
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<p><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21822375-soulminder">GoodReads summary</a>:
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For Dr. Adrian Sommers, a split second of driving while distracted leads to
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tragedy-and obsession. His family destroyed, he devotes his entire being to
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developing Soulminder, a technology that might have saved his son as he wavered
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on the edge of death. Sommers's vision is to capture a dying person's life
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essence and hold it safely in stasis while physicians heal the body from injury
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or disease. Years of experimentation finally end in success—but those who
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recognize Soulminder's possibilities almost immediately corrupt its original
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concept to pursue dangerous new frontiers: body-swapping, obstruction of
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justice, extortion, and perhaps even immortality.</p>
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★★☆☆☆
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<p>What if souls really exist and we could capture them, store them, and then
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return them to the body? That's what this book is about (in a way, it's pretty
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close to "The Discovery" by Netflix).</p>
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<p>In one hand, the book is <em>not</em> about the fact that we have souls (or where they
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go after we die, and things like that), but how one tool, dreamed by someone,
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could be explored and turned into something completely different, and how that
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dreamer would feel about the misuse of his tool. This is a really interesting
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way to build characters in a story.</p>
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<p>On the other hand, I have this feeling that the author used the word "soul"
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just to create a fake controversy over the stories. If it was called "Brain
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tracer" or "Memory storage" -- which is what the device does, in the end --,
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half of the book would fall apart, because there would be no direct association
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with something it is mostly used by religions -- which, again, is used as a
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plot device to create controversies inside the book.</p>
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<p>As a side note, I got the feeling that either the author had ulcers while
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writing the story or was hungry while writing, 'cause most of the characters
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suffer, in a way or another, with stomach problems: "felt a knot in his
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stomach", "made her stomach churn" and things like that.</p>
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<p>Also, chapters are too episodic, and it gave me the feeling that the story
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wasn't wrote for a book, but for some TV series.</p>
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