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Body Tourists
Body Tourists | Jane Rogers
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Her observation of our species is tender, precise, illuminating - Hilary Mantel In this version of London, there is a small, private clinic. Behind its layers of security, procedures are taking place on poor, robust teenagers from northern Estates in exchange for thousands of pounds - procedures that will bring the wealthy dead back to life in these young supple bodies for fourteen days. It's an opportunity for wrongs to be righted, for fathers to meet grandsons, for scientists to see their work completed. Old wine in new bottles. But at what cost? The first chapter of Body Tourists will be broadcast on Radio 4 on June 4th, 2019, and available online subsequently.
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jhod
Body Tourists | Jane Rogers
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Loving this sci-fi with feelings book

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Graywacke
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Definitely not my kind of book, but as thought experiment, downloading deceased minds into hired young healthy bodies, it‘s interesting, looks at it from several angles, and has left me thinking about it.

Suet624 Kind of creepy though. 😂😂😳😳 5y
Graywacke @Suet624 ah, see you‘re thinking through too! Yes, really creepy. 5y
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Graywacke
Body Tourists | Jane Rogers
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Well out of my comfort zone, but seems I‘ve gotten into this take - downloading deceased brains into borrowed bodies (set up, it seems, so everything can go wrong). Imagining what it would be like in the new, healthy, borrowed body, not to mention how you might feel about someone else borrowing your body. I‘m about 70 pages in.

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