Glasshouse by Charles Stross
I found this while looking for science fiction stories about mind uploading and life extension. It's set in a world where people can rebuild their bodies basically at will; the main character is a (seemingly male) military operative forcibly remade into a 1950s American housewife as part of a bizarre social experiment.
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Published: 2006 Read: October 2021 |
It doesn't really explore the ideas about mind-uploading and consciousness transfer in a way that would make it useful in the class I plan to teach on the topic, but I didn't mind as I thoroughly enjoyed reading it. It's a very weird, very solid thriller, about escaping from prison—only the prison is society itself in a sense. Cool ideas, played with in interesting ways. This was my first Charles Stross novel, but I suspect it will not be my last.
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