Los cuerpos del verano by Martín Felipe Castagnet

He is pursuing a century-old vendetta, somewhat halfheartedly he's selfish, and lecherous, and a lot of his actions disgusted me the things he does are sometimes terrible, but seem to be accepted by the other characters. It's sweaty and cumbersome, and he has to drag a heavy battery around with him the consequences of being separated from an electrical source are.pretty gross. Ramiro's experiences are very visceral his new body is older than he was when he died, it's female, it's fat.

That handwave of the technicalities worked really well, for me - I especially liked when he leaned into the horror aspects of essentially being downloaded into a dead body. Heaven is the internet, but you can (if you have the funds) pop back and forth into physical bodies. Castagnet doesn't bother with trying to explain how this feat is performed - at either end - being more concerned with what society might look like if death was suddenly a choice (for most).

The story revolves around Ramiro, a man who died a century before the day this tale begins, but has been (after)living in 'flotation', with many other ghosts, until recently, when his family purchased a body for him. The science fiction is relatively light-touch it's probably speculative, really, but genre is so blurry, why worry. I wish I knew where I heard of this book, originally, because I'd like to say thank you for a very low pagecount, it really packs a punch. 'The existence of the afterlife is now a fact Heaven is the internet'.Īrgentinian sci-fi written 2012, translated 2017.

Los cuerpos del verano by Martín Felipe Castagnet