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* In ''[[Hush, Hush]]'', fallen angels spend all their time tracking down nephilim and forcing them to submit to possession for two weeks out of every year. The nephilim all hate this, but are targeted because they won't die from it, unlike humans. {{spoiler|At the end of the story, Patch possesses Nora [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|without her permission, and without warning]]. It's to fight off someone threatening her, but she still finds it terrifying.}} |
* In ''[[Hush, Hush]]'', fallen angels spend all their time tracking down nephilim and forcing them to submit to possession for two weeks out of every year. The nephilim all hate this, but are targeted because they won't die from it, unlike humans. {{spoiler|At the end of the story, Patch possesses Nora [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|without her permission, and without warning]]. It's to fight off someone threatening her, but she still finds it terrifying.}} |
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* In Timothy Zahn's "Soulminder" stories, a technology is developed that can draw a person's essence from their body and store it elsewhere before returning it. It's meant to assist in lifesaving procedures, but naturally it doesn't take long for somebody to catch on that it also enables Grand Theft Me. Unfortunately for the first person who tries it, a dying crime boss, it turns out that placing your soul in someone else's body causes you to start taking on ''their'' personality, and he's so transformed that he eventually turns himself in. |
* In Timothy Zahn's "Soulminder" stories, a technology is developed that can draw a person's essence from their body and store it elsewhere before returning it. It's meant to assist in lifesaving procedures, but naturally it doesn't take long for somebody to catch on that it also enables Grand Theft Me. Unfortunately for the first person who tries it, a dying crime boss, it turns out that placing your soul in someone else's body causes you to start taking on ''their'' personality, and he's so transformed that he eventually turns himself in. |
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* ''The Main Noon'' (partially adapted in a [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0353899/ movie]) and the sequel, by [https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/4382033.Aleksandr_Mirer Alexander Mirer]. There's an [[Alien Invasion]] like this. Eventually it turned out that they are professional infiltrators and are supposed to send a call for the Mothership with "colonists" - which is, of course, when the main conflict takes shape. It's not [[Brain Uploading]]/Downloading, because the original owner of a body is not harmed, merely unconscious, and the "intermediary" devices change weight when loaded or unloaded; also, {{spoiler|the infiltrators can take over stupid animals - obviously, without opposable thumbs one can but watch and need a translation device or taking another body even to report, and being a common rodent entails risk of not surviving to extraction... but they ''do'' remain sapient while literally hare-brained}}. It also turned out they have a secret society devoted to stopping this "colonization". In part because it's essentially a pyramid scheme: on each assimilated planet "colonists" produce children, who at the end of natural lifespans are saved in storage and added to the queue waiting for new bodies as well... and so on. Natural disasters apparently can and do destroy millions of storage units in the vaults, but this doesn't change the general situation. |
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