Soon to be adapted for television by Carnival creators of Downton AbbeyAn Indie Next Pick - A
Science Fiction Book Club PickBestselling author of The Oracle Year Charles Soule brings his
signature knowledge-and wariness-of technology to his new 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.
