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Suppose you could switch bodies with another person? What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life–how far would you go to get it back?
From New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson comes a pure adrenaline thriller of hijacked identities, elusive motives, and deeply buried secrets–a disturbing, thought-provoking excursion into a sleek, hedonistic society where nothing is your own...not even your soul.
Hopscotch
For a fee, Eduard Swan will swap bodies with people in distress–those facing surgeries, emotional crises, moments of unpleasantness or discomfort they can't or would rather not deal with. Eduard will experience the suffering for them. It's a lucrative business, and in a world in which no one is required to feel any pain, there is no end of clients. But someone doesn't want to play by the rules. Someone doesn't want to return his body. And, unfortunately for Eduard, that someone is one of the world's most powerful men. Now Eduard has no choice but to steal back his life.
He has the perfect alibi–or so he thinks. For even in a world where you can hopscotch from body to body, you always leave a trail. And following that trail is a relentless dispenser of "justice" named Daragon, a childhood friend, now a zealous and ambitious agent of state security, who won't let old friendships stand in the way of doing his duty.
When Eduard goes on the run, hounded at every turn by Daragon, his only hope is two other childhood friends: Garth, a tormented artist who gains success beyond his wildest dreams, only to discover the terrible price of fame; and Teresa, a spiritual seeker who risks losing her own body to a fanatical religious cult as she embarks on a harrowing quest to find her true identity.
Moving from underground hopscotch pleasure bars to the highest enclaves of power to a seamy underworld of illegal Phantoms, ancient minds who steal younger bodies in a quest for eternal life, Eduard and his friends seek the meaning of identity in a society in which appearances mean everything–and nothing–and where everything is relative...even murder.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Robert Warren
reviewed Hopscotch on May 03, 2009
Hopscotch
There's little doubt in my mind that this is one of my best reads of the month. Anderson paints a picture of a futuristic society but the whole concept of being able to swap bodies at will is quite inspired. he handles perspective, friendship and duty admirably.
Swapportunities and e-nouncements are cool watchwords for the future, and it's a great read, following the main characters, three of which are firm friends and the forth feels for duty, more than friendship. An artist, a lost soul and an eventual murderer all have their shining moments in this compelling story of swapping bodies,all undercut with tension and drama. The intricacies of the swap - the impact of the physical versus the mental - is very well thought-out indeed. Furthermore, the ability to move from physical form to form seems to have engendered a degree of sexual openness and communal working, in some quarters, and that's great to see.
As with any society there are bad as well as good people: the modus operandi of the bureaux that seem to run everything is shoot first, ask questions later, and Anderson's favourite mantra - a fake, wooing religion - is also apparent.
yet there is hope. For all the violence, the dangers and inherent legal complications that arise from being able to move out of your own body and into someone else's, the public are painted as generally average people, going about their day-to-day business. The Computer Organic Matrix (or COM) is an ever-growing network of computers and minds, and it seems as if any day now it will do something drastic - either to depose the bureaux or else to encourage more of the mere people to join it in some harmonious gestalt. maybe that would have worked for a sequel, who knows? In any case, a shockingly insightful little book, this - fiction at its futuristic best.
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