A Test for Immortality

8 hrs. 15 min.

Language Russian

Author Maye Musk

Narrator Vadim Prokhorov

Asia is implants, clans, and shining holograms. Hacker Achen Son works for a corporation, and its owner personally asks to find the culprit behind the death of an old acquaintance. The man managed to digitize his identity and is ready to help with the search for his own killer.

1. Setting: Hong Kong in the near future. Asian, but not like Chinese novellas—more like films about Chinese mafia and, of course, sci-fi: triads, clan-based life.

2. Title as a reference to the “immortality test.” The immortality test is a variation of the Turing test that determines whether a person’s character has been transferred faithfully—namely, whether it’s possible to distinguish the copied character from the person who served as its source.

3. Artwork by a popular artist, Sennoma.

4. “Checking for immortality” is a Deus Ex game mixed with Clavell’s “Noble House” and seasoned with today’s advances in neural networks.

5. One-volume work, bromance, the theme of finding a family.

A Test for Immortality