From: tkoenig@netcologne.de   
      
   Lynn McGuire  schrieb:   
      
   > Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward   
   > to a life of leisure.  There are places to go, books to read, and movies   
   > to watch.  So it’s a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing   
   > the street.  His family freezes him for future healing.   
   >   
   > Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared   
   > to be without rights, and he is now the property of the State.  He has   
   > been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling   
   > A.I. in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.   
      
   That sounds awfully like "A World Out of Time", especially   
      
   >The stakes   
   > are high, no less than first claim to entire worlds.  If he declines the   
   > honor, he’ll be switched off and they’ll try again with someone else.   
      
   ... this part.  Only difference: There, the checker became the AI.   
      
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