Death.net. Internet for the Dead

Reception, you are being called by the dead!

The future is already here: trying to outsmart death, people invented a program for digital copying of consciousness. Once a year you save a backup of your memory, and your loved ones will be able to activate the last copy when you die and communicate with it via the Internet. A digital duplicate of human consciousness living in isolation inside its own memory is convinced it is the real person. And to keep the dead from being lonely, the government unites individual memories of the duplicates. Their world becomes indistinguishable from ours—only it is just an electronic echo of reality uploaded into the cloud: the Internet for the dead.

But now the dead themselves want to talk to the living! They can connect by hacking all sorts of technical devices. The voice of the dead suddenly comes through radio speakers, or instead of a voice assistant—a dead artist interferes with video art, and a computer game turns into a journey through someone else’s memory. And even this audiobooks is hacked in the first chapter by the real voice of the author, Tatyana Zamirovskaya—becoming a living guide into the reality of a universal digital resurrection…

This is a story of someone who died, told in the first person. Because the dead want to be heard—as do all of us.