Deep End

Shawl, Nisi. "Deep End." So Long Been Dreaming: Postcolonial Science Fiction & Fantasy. Ed. Nalo Hopkins and Uppinder Mehan. Vancouver, BC: Arsenal, 2004. 12-22.

See for motif of uploading and downloading personalities, «up» to AI (Artificial Intelligence) storage in the ship's "mind" and «down» to clones. Prisoners' bodies are destroyed, their personalities uploaded, and then downloaded into clones of bodies of members of the ruling elite. The protagonist accepts "her" body as "hers. No one else owned it, no matter who her clone's cells had started off with. Hers, no matter how different it looked from the one she had been born with. How white" (17). (RDE, 27/12/04)