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    Hopscotch

    By Kevin J. Anderson

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    About this ebook

    Suppose you could switch bodies with another person. What exciting new experiences would you choose to explore? What forbidden desires would you indulge? Suppose someone stole your life—how far would you go to get it back?

    A pure adrenaline thriller of hijacked identities, elusive motives, and deeply buried secrets.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWordFire Press
    Release dateMay 7, 2011
    ISBN9780967354880
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    Kevin J. Anderson

    Kevin J. Anderson has published more than eighty novels, including twenty-nine national bestsellers. He has been nominated for the Nebula Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the SFX Reader's Choice Award. His critically acclaimed original novels include Captain Nemo, Hopscotch, and Hidden Empire. He has also collaborated on numerous series novels, including Star Wars, The X-Files, and Dune. In his spare time, he also writes comic books. He lives in Wisconsin.

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    • 3/5
      In a world where people swap bodies as casually as they change shirts, relationships are complicated, especially for a group of young adults who struggle to hold their childhood friendship together against the constant rip-tide of total identity chaos. When Eduard is forced to kill a powerful man in self defence and then disappears behind a screen of rapid identity flips, his friends rally to protect him, but there's just one problem: how can you help someone if you don't know who he is today? And while they search, the authorities are closing in.

      The premise of hopscotching makes for an interesting world, and some of the implications of that technology are explored, but I don't think very believably. The profound upheavals that would follow such ubiquitous and casual identity shifting would completely destabilize society and it would reassemble in some bizarre and unrecognizable new form. The characters are rather unshaped, and there was little to keep me engaged and concerned for their well-being.

      Well enough written for those who don't want to think too deeply about the situation, but it falls apart pretty quickly for those who do.
    • 4/5
      This is about the simple premise that people can transfer their consciousnesses from body to body, irrespective of sex or age. The story takes a few characters and explores this theme by putting them in conflict with each other over the course of several years. Although I found the technology an its effects to be unrealistically minimal, it's a good story that kept me interested to the end.
    • 5/5
      Very, very, interesting idea. Makes you wonder what it would be like to live in a world such as this, would you like it or not...hmmmm.....