Anyone
Author(s): Charles Soule
Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival, creators of Downton Abbey
An Indie Next PickA Science Fiction Book Club Pick
Bestselling author of The Oracle Year, Charles Soule brings his signature knowledgeand warinessof 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 Alzheimers cure throws a switchand finds herself mysteriously transported into her husbands body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her lifeand the worldforever
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 womans 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 Soules thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide.
Review(s):
Fast-paced and suspenseful. Soules uncomfortable vision of the future will please readers of cutting-edge speculative fiction.An imaginative, time-fragmented thriller about the bitter and potentially deadly consequences of body-snatching. Readers wont feel that theyre on the edge of their seats as much as theyre on a balance beam above a pit of lava while trying to solve a Rubiks Cube.
With his second novel,
Anyone, Charles Soule establishes himself as an author that readers of speculative fiction will love for years to come. The book will leave you thinking about gender, power, and what it means to be human for long after the final chapter.
Soule has wrapped a sharp, prescient investigation of the human mind inside a breakneck thriller that will have you riveted until the very last twist.
Anyone is truly a book for everyone.
I spent much of my childhood inside DARPA, where my father was Deputy Director, and this book captures the imagination and double-edged sword of our greatest scientific leaps. The same technology that can cure the worlds ills might also cause us to spiral into our own greed, selfishness, and vanity.Charles Soules
Anyoneis a remarkable, consequential novel and a terrifying wake-up call.
A scientist's experiment gone wrong leads to a technology, called "flash," that changes the world. Charles Soule (The Oracle Year) gives this conventional sci-fi theme a rollicking 21st-century update in Anyone... . . Fans of N.K. Jemisin will devour this mind-bending novel.Anyone is an intense, superbly crafted, edge of your seat thrill ride. I loved the two slowly converging storylines, not to mention the most dedicated, hardcore character Ive read in a long, long time. Who would you be if you could be anyone? Id really like to be Charles Soule and have written this book.
Explosive
ISBN:9780062890634
