Proxies (novel)

Mixon, Laura J. Proxies. NYC: TOR, 1998, 1999. Avatars Dance series #2. Except in RELOAD: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture. For reviews see Internet Speculative Fiction Database, entry as of June 2023, here.[1]

Google Books quick summary: "In the next century, new technology enables individuals to use a remote device to send their consciousness across hundreds of thousands of miles to another world. After unleashing 'proxies' — remotely controlled synthetic bodies — to seize control of humanity's first mission to the stars, a secret cadre goes after the inventor of the new technology to carry out its plan."

Cf. and contrast transmitted consciousness in such works as Frederik Pohl's "The Day the Icicle Works Closed," Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon (novel) novel series, and Altered Carbon TV series.

Discussed and analyzed in Mary Flanagan's "Hyperbodies, Hyperknowledge: Women in Games, Women in Cyberpunk, and Strategies of Resistance," in RELOAD: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture: 434-38.

RDE, finishing, 13Jun23, 3Aug23