Book review of The Roamers by Francesco Verso (opens in new tab)

What if your physical body were no longer a lifelong commitment? What if we could, instead, free ourselves from that mortal constraint and simply inhabit the hardware you happened to be running at the time? This is the central question at the heart of Francesco Verso’s The Roamers, a novel of ideas translated from Italian that firmly plants its flag in the post-cyberpunk, biopunk landscape. It's the near future, and consciousness can be data-mapped, digitised and made into a downloadable form...