Sawyer uses all the good science fiction ideas and it’s makes them part of the background, no big deal.
Alexander Lomax is a private eye - on Mars no less. His client is a lovely woman who is looking for her lost husband. She’s a robot by the way. A transfer as they are called in the story. The technology exists where one can transfer his or her consciousness to an artificial body and continue on living indefinitely.
What a great idea! It’s just an everyday thing here. Love that.
Somewhere along the line somebody did something illegal to the husband and Lomax takes over where the police stopped caring.
The story is pretty much a straight-up mystery but the uniqueness of the setting keeps coming up to add flavour to the drama.
The dialogue was clean and crisp. Any exposition needed was dealt with in the plot. To me, this is the real trick of writing fiction; not allowing any kind of explanation to take away from the story. How do you show instead of tell? Sawyer is a master of this.
It’s a story of people being people, even if they are in robot bodies.
Excellent stuff! Highly recommended.
Robert J. Sawyer's website - https://www.sfwriter.com/
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