I guess it's sort of funny, really, how much better it is once you stop fighting the inevitable and simply succumb to it instead. It's not the fear of death that's so horrible, you know. It's hope that's the problem-- the vain hope that somehow you can do something to stop what has already happened. Once you give that up, it's so easy. Once you
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Moon describes it well without spoiling it.
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I actually ordered it on DVD, despite it costing way too much for a 10 minute film. I dislike that most science fiction glazes over this issue, although to me it seems like the most important issue involved with teleportation of any kind. Even Wil McCarthy, who takes his science seriously, skirts the issue by saying that people "decided not to worry about it."
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I vaguely recall some 1950's era space opera, maybe by Pohl? about agents who would train and train and then get "sent" via duplicator to some distant world to perform their mission. But the arrivee was *invariably* surprised to *actually* be the one who got there. The doublethink was ineffective...
A current author who explores this a lot is Greg Egan. Gosh do I recommend Greg Egan. He has a recurring spin: People accept and embrace that having your replicate take over where you left off is Just As Good as living, without doubt.
This one, Temple of Saturn, takes a different (and more identifiable, to me) view. Still, it could pass for one of Egan's best, and then some.
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