Death Is Cheap: Difference between revisions

* [[Cory Doctorow]]'s ''Down And Out in the Magic Kingdom'' takes this trope to its logical conclusion by having everyone take resurrection for granted. Thus, the narrator (Julius) is killed early in the novel and spends the rest of the story fighting back against those he believes responsible for his murder. He theorizes that they timed his death carefully so that he'd be out of commission at the exact point when his enemies were putting a plan into effect, since obviously if they killed him too early he would be alive again at by that point.

** And in both that book and [[Ken MacLeod]]'s ''Newton's Wake'', resurrection is so automated that other medical skills have atrophied or been lost; it's easier to get a new body than to fix the one you have. Like consumer electronics today.

* In ''[[Dragaera]]'', it's a relatively simple process to become "revivified" after death. It's fairly expensive, however, and some circumstances can make it impossible. Assassinations among the Jhereg criminal organization often do not take. In the first novel, Vlad even claims that someone might be assassinated as a warning to back off, though this level of cheapness is not carried over into subsequent novels.

* The ''Takeshi Kovacs'' novels by Richard K. Morgan take place in a largely post-death world where a person's consciousness is housed in a chip in his brain, called a "stack." When his body dies, his chip is inserted into a new one. Bodies, now called "sleeves," are bought and traded like garments. In the first book of the series, a centuries-old magnate hires the hero to find out how his previous sleeve was murdered.

 

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