The Downloaded

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978-1-989398-99-9
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4 stars (1 review)

In 2059 two very different groups have their minds uploaded into a quantum computer in Waterloo, Ontario. One group consists of astronauts preparing for Earth's first interstellar voyage. The other? Convicted murderers, serving their sentences in a virtual-reality prison. But when disaster strikes, the astronauts and the prisoners must download back into physical reality and find a way to work together to save Earth from destruction.

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4 stars

A short, fast tale of two groups reawakening after the fall of civilization, built around the premise that you need to keep a frozen person's consciousness active in VR...and there are very different reasons you might put people into cryo storage and a time-adjusted simulation. Not a lot of story, mainly character studies.

The everything-is-an-interview convention gets awkward after a while, at least as prose. But it wouldn't surprise me if it works better with the actual voice cast.

A bit more commentary at my website.