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  • Steve Toutonghi: Side Life
    Af Steve Toutonghi (2018)
    Summary: Set in Seattle, Steve Toutonghi’s second novel, Side Life , is a dazzling, intriguing, and philosophical blend of literary science fiction—perfect for fans of Blake Crouch, Philip K. Dick and Ex Machina . What if every possibility of every life were within your reach? Vin, a down-on-his-luck young tech entrepreneur forced out of the software company he started, takes a job house-sitting an ultramodern Seattle mansion whose owner has gone missing. There he discovers a secret basement lab with an array of computers and three large, smooth caskets. Inside one he finds a woman in a state of suspended animation. There is also a dog-eared notebook filled with circuit diagrams, beautiful and intricate drawings of body parts, and pages of code. When Vin decides to enter one of the caskets himself, his reality begins to unravel, and he finds himself on a terrifying journey that raises fundamental questions about reality, free will, and the meaning of a human life

  • Steve Toutonghi: Join
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    Join

    Af Steve Toutonghi (2019)
    Summary: “A searing, ballistic plunge into the mysteries of identity and mortality” from the author of the time travel sci-fi thriller Side Life (Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love ).   What does it mean to be human, and what happens when humanity takes the next step in its evolution?   When Join arrived, it was hailed as a miracle: a technology that allowed humans to join consciousnesses. To experience perfect, constant companionship through multiple bodies. To never die.   But Chance and Leap—two joins of five and four respectively—discover a terrifying malfunction in the technology.   Chance and Leap must journey into the climate change–ruined heart of North America and the communities of never-joined “ferals” in search of the only ones who can dismantle the technology: the ones who created it.   “Toutonghi combines smart, imaginative extrapolation about technology and a deep curiosity about civilization and the human condition.” —NPR.org   “ Join is a conceptual powerhouse, tapping into the core of our contemporary debates about technology.” —Tor.com   “A heady sci-fi thriller about a world-altering technology—and its hidden costs.” — Kirkus Reviews   “Challenging, surprising, shocking, and enlightening. Steve Toutonghi’s Join stands alongside Ancillary Justice as a novel that forces us to ask impossible questions about identity and immortality. An exciting addition to 21st century science fiction.” —Robert Repino, author of D’Arc and Mort(e)