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    On 02/10/2012 11:39 AM, Natasha Vita-More wrote:
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            someone suggest five well-known science fiction authors and
            their book titles that speculate on cyberspace as an
            alternative environment for leaving the flesh/meat body
            behind?  You don’t have to like, agree with or support the
            narratives, and they don’t have to be transhumanist in
            scope.</span></p>
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    Please share this list when you collect it.  I would love to read
    more stories like that.  The only ones that spring immediately to
    mind are:<br>
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    Permutation City  (Egan)<br>
    Accelerando  (Stross) (parts of it)<br>
    Golden Age triology (John C Wright)<br>
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    - samantha<br>
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