Anyone, Charles Soule
Anyone, Charles Soule
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Anyone
A Novel

Author: Charles Soule

Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller

Unabridged: 14 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 12/03/2019


Synopsis

Charles Soule brings his signature knowledge—and wariness—of technology to his sophomore novel set in a realistic future about a brilliant female scientist who creates a technology that allows for the transfer of human consciousness between bodies, and the transformations this process wreaks upon the world.Inside a barn in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a scientist searching for an Alzheimer’s cure throws a switch—and finds herself mysteriously transported into her husband’s body. What begins as a botched experiment will change her life—and the world—forever…Over two decades later, all across the planet, “flash” technology allows individuals the ability to transfer their consciousness into other bodies for specified periods, paid, registered and legal. Society has been utterly transformed by the process, from travel to warfare to entertainment; “Be anyone with Anyone” the tagline of the company offering this ultimate out-of-body experience. But beyond the reach of the law and government regulators is a sordid black market called the darkshare, where desperate “vessels” anonymously rent out their bodies, no questions asked for any purpose - sex, drugs, crime... or worse.Anyone masterfully interweaves the present-day story of the discovery and development of the flash with the gritty tale of one woman’s crusade to put an end to the darkness it has brought to the world twenty-five years after its creation. Like Blade Runner crossed with Get Out, Charles Soule’s thought-provoking work of speculative fiction takes us to a world where identity, morality, and technology collide.

About Charles Soule

Charles Soule is a New York Times-bestselling, Brooklyn-based comic book writer, musician, and attorney. He is best known for writing Daredevil, She-Hulk, Death of Wolverine and various Star Wars comics from Marvel Comics, as well as his creator-owned series Curse Words from Image Comics and the award-winning political sci-fi epic Letter 44 from Oni Press.


Reviews

This is one of the hardest reviews I’ve had to write because this book defies description, and it’s just so GOOD. First of all, it’s science fiction and presented in a way that anti-speculative fiction readers will still find completely approachable. There’s tons of suspense, some fantasy, great cha......more

Q: “What can I do for you?... Anything for Anyone.” (c) Q: ... there is a secret at the heart of the flash, and the world should know about it. (c) Wow. That was chilling! Q: ... a company called NeOnet Global released the technology that allowed the transfer of human consciousness from one body to anot......more

Whose mind is using that body? Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: Gabriella White, a brilliant neurologist and scientist who’s searching for a cure to Alzheimer’s, is at the very end of the funding for her research project. In her frustration, she recklessly pushes the power for her lab......more

Goodreads review by Tucker

Many thanks to Heather at Harper Perrenial for sending me a copy in exchange for an honest review This book was one of my least favorites of 2019. See the rest on my video, The WORST Books of 2019! ☕☕ ------------------- Be anyone with Anyone! This book started strong, with perfect pacing bu......more

Goodreads review by Sylvain

Who would you be if you could be anyone? I can tell you I’d really like to be Charles Soule and have written this book. ANYONE is an intense, superbly crafted, edge of your seat thrill ride. I loved the execution: two slowly converging storylines that collide in the most spectacular way, not to ment......more