Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton
Abbey
An Indie Next Pick - A Science Fiction Book Club Pick
**Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his
signature knowledge--and wariness--of technology to his new novel set in
a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a
technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between
bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.
**
Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an
Alzheimer's cure throws a switch--and finds herself mysteriously
transported into her husband's body. What begins as a botched experiment
will change her life--and the world--forever...
Over two decades later, all across the planet, "flash" technology allows
individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other
bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. Society has
been utterly transformed by the process, from travel to warfare to
entertainment; "Be anyone with Anyone" the tagline of the company
offering this ultimate out-of-body experience. But beyond the reach of
the law and government regulators is a sordid black market called the
darkshare, where desperate "vessels" anonymously rent out their bodies,
no questions asked for any purpose - sex, drugs, crime... or worse.
Anyone masterfully interweaves the present-day story of the discovery
and development of the flash with the gritty tale of one woman's crusade
to put an end to the darkness it has brought to the world twenty-five
years after its creation. Like Blade Runner crossed with Get Out,
Charles Soule's thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us
to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide.
