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Comment by prewett

3 hours ago

I just finished reading "That Hideous Strength" (CS Lewis) this weekend where they have a disembodied head kept "alive", and some convicts in the pipeline whose heads/brains, it is implied, will be experimented on similarly. Lewis was remarkably prophetic.

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renticulous  3 hours ago

The Dust Theory in Permutation City by Greg Egan pushes the concept to bizarre levels.

  • bicx  1 hour ago

    Greg Egan is a legend

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