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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/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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<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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