Neuro Vault: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has its share of memory transfers, but specifically in ''Return af the Archwizards'' the wizard spy dropped lots of reconnaissance data (for all we know, it could be ''centuries'' worth of examining [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] while hiding inside the same can) to another guy, because he was dying and it was the only way to save priceless knowledge. {{spoiler|Carrier used this memory only as provoked "I just feel it must be so" insights, even after he understood what's going on (which still made him so valuable that dead wizard's boss could neither let him go nor kill him, nor even use outright [[Brainwashed|mind control]]).}}

* In ''The Search for Snout'', the third book in [[Bruce Coville]]'s alien series, it's revealed near the end that the main character has a secret piece of data in his brain that will allow the villain to literally destroy time.

* This is pretty much the entire premise of ''One of Us'' by Michael Marshall Smith. The main character makes his living storing memories that others want to get rid of temporarily -- for instance, a businessman about to screw over his partner hands over a memory of a moral lesson from his father. (Permanently destroying a memory screws up [[The Force]].) Unfortunately for him, someone figures out that this can work as [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]] for the giver, and that the [[Big Bad]] only wants to kill anyone who ''remembers'' a particular secret.

* In [[Piers Anthony|Piers Anthony's]] Macroscope, {{spoiler|Brad Carpenter}} hides [[Blackmail Is Such an Ugly Word|information]] about Schon inside {{spoiler|Afra Summerfield's}} mind.