The History of a War Against the Mend-and-Repair

'''Astel, Richard. "The History of a War Against the Mend-and-Repair."' MR47/48:'' 194-99 (see under Literary Criticism, Larry McCaffery, guest ed.).

The "mend-and-repairs" are machines with "reincarnative functioning" for the humans under their control. See for robots who won't let people die and the possibility of a brain implant that might be "a recorder or even a transmitter, to save our remembered 'souls' for the next time around" (197). Cf. P. J. Farmer's Riverworld series and J. Williamson's Humanoids stories (cited in the Wiki).

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