Re-Coil

The ExpansemeetsAltered Carbonhigh-concept science fiction standalone, musing on the societal and personal dilemmas of immortality through an endless supply of replacement bodies. Out on a salvage mission with a skeleton crew, Carter Langston is murdered by animated corpses left behind on this ship. Yet in this future, everyone‘s consciousness backup can be safely downloaded into a brand-new body, and all you‘d lose are the memories of what happened between your last backup and your death. But when Langston wakes up in his new body, he is immediately attacked in the medbay and has to fight once again for his lifeand his immortality. Because this assassin aims to destroy his core forever. Determined to find his shipmates and solve this evolving mystery, Langston locates their tech whiz Shay Chan, but two members are missing and perhaps permanently killed. Langston and Chan are soon running for their lives with the assassin and the corporation behind him in hot pursuit. What Langston and Chan ultimately find would signal the end of humanity. What started as a salvage mission just might end up saving the world.