![]() Infatuated with 1980s pop culture-despite the book’s time of roughly 167 years after the beginning of that iconic decade-he’s also a jerk, and generally oblivious to his abrasiveness.Īs a last-ditch effort to be less passive in his marriage, Byram agrees to a Costa Rican vacation with his wife. He works from home where he “salts” (tests) Artificially Intelligent Digital Entities, or AIDEs, attempting to create a more realistic façade of sentience. He’s married to a brilliant scientist who works at a top-secret teleportation corporation and who also performs all the heavy lifting in their marriage. ![]() How does one form an identity, a claim of existence? Thomas Mann declared, “No one remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.” This is certainly true when Joel Byram is accidentally cloned and forced to confront his other self in The Punch Escrow.īyram, the narrator, and the first of the two Joels, lives an unremarkable life before his fateful replication. ![]()
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