Several books - but I really want to shout out
Roger Zelazny’s ”Lord of light”(1967)
I don’t think this book is as half as well known in the Sci-fi genre as it should be. When you start reading it, it becomes an obvious precursor to themes in so many modern books. Matrix and the Culture series of Iain Banks, as well as Rajaniemi’s ’Quantum thief’ come to mind. The central theme is semi-immortality - peoples minds are uploaded to a new body one after another. In a colony planet, far removed from Earth, an elite has taken control of this and lord it over everybody else. At some point superpowers emerge etc to make it ’more entertaining’ and some of that is a bit clunky - but get past that! This is a jewel waiting to be read (and not very long).
I don’t think this book is as half as well known in the Sci-fi genre as it should be. When you start reading it, it becomes an obvious precursor to themes in so many modern books. Matrix and the Culture series of Iain Banks, as well as Rajaniemi’s ’Quantum thief’ come to mind. The central theme is semi-immortality - peoples minds are uploaded to a new body one after another. In a colony planet, far removed from Earth, an elite has taken control of this and lord it over everybody else. At some point superpowers emerge etc to make it ’more entertaining’ and some of that is a bit clunky - but get past that! This is a jewel waiting to be read (and not very long).