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The novel was adapted into a PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation game by Creator/CryoInteractive in 1998.

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* ArtificialAfterlife: Human souls reincarnate after death, in accordance with the ''Tibetan Book of the Dead''. But science can also artificially lengthen how long souls linger after death, by [[HumanPopsicle placing the recently deceased in "cold-pac"]]. The experience inside cold-pac is indistinguishable from living reality ([[MindScrew at first]]), so it takes a while for several characters to realize they were DeadAllAlong.

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* ArtificialAfterlife: Human souls reincarnate after death, in accordance with the ''Tibetan Book of the Dead''. But science can also artificially lengthen how long souls linger after death, by [[HumanPopsicle placing the recently deceased in "cold-pac"]]. The experience inside cold-pac is indistinguishable from living reality ([[MindScrew at first]]), first]])[[spoiler:, so it takes a while for several characters to realize they were DeadAllAlong.]]
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Meet Joe Chip, our protagonist: a technician working for Runciter who's so perpetually broke he has to argue with his (coin-operated) [[InstantAIJustAddWater artificially intelligent appliances]] to get them to work. When one of Runciter's talent scouts comes to him with a MysteriousWaif named Pat Conley, he finds what may be the most powerful anti-psychic talent the world has ever seen. She can [[{{Retcon}} rewrite the past itself]] to counteract precognitive predictions. Chip hardly has time to process this before Runciter whisks the two of them and a handful of others away to the moon for a lucrative operation against his rival, Ray Hollis, head of a psychic spy firm. But the operation quickly sours when an explosion grievously wounds Runciter. The team heads back to Earth, desperate to save their boss by putting him into cold-pac.

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Meet Joe Chip, our protagonist: a technician working for Runciter who's so perpetually broke he has to argue with his (coin-operated) [[InstantAIJustAddWater [[ArtificialIntelligence artificially intelligent appliances]] to get them to work. When one of Runciter's talent scouts comes to him with a MysteriousWaif named Pat Conley, he finds what may be the most powerful anti-psychic talent the world has ever seen. She can [[{{Retcon}} rewrite the past itself]] to counteract precognitive predictions. Chip hardly has time to process this before Runciter whisks the two of them and a handful of others away to the moon for a lucrative operation against his rival, Ray Hollis, head of a psychic spy firm. But the operation quickly sours when an explosion grievously wounds Runciter. The team heads back to Earth, desperate to save their boss by putting him into cold-pac.

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%%* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Jory.]]

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%%* * ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler: Jory.The first time Glen Runciter visits his wife in Cold-pac, he finds that another HumanPopsicle, by the name of Jory, is trying to get in on the conversation. [[spoiler:Jory turns out to be the one draining the protagonists' life force.]]



* DwindlingParty: One by one, the group are being reduced to withered corpses.



* HumanPopsicle: "Cold-pac", a sort-of mortuary service where dying people are frozen so that their loved ones or associates can talk to them while they live out their "half-life", what few moments are left to them, distended out into years. The process has also proven the ''Bardo Thodol'', the Tibetian Book of the Dead, is absolutely true.

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* HumanPopsicle: "Cold-pac", a sort-of mortuary service where dying people are frozen so that their loved ones or associates can talk to them while they live out their "half-life", what few moments are left to them, distended out into years. The process has also proven the ''Bardo Thodol'', the Tibetian Tibetan Book of the Dead, is absolutely true.


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* RedHerringMole: As more characters die and history regresses to 1939, the survivors begin to suspect [[spoiler:Pat as the cause of the trouble, since she's Runciter's newest employee and could easily be a saboteur. They're wrong.]]
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The novel was adapted into a PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation game by Cryo in 1998.

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The novel was adapted into a PC and UsefulNotes/PlayStation game by Cryo Creator/CryoInteractive in 1998.
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Meet Joe Chip, our protagonist: a technician working for Runciter who's so perpetually broke he has to argue with his (coin-operated) [[InstantAIJustAddWater artificially intelligent appliances]] to get them to work. When one of Runciter's talent scouts comes to him with a MysteriousWaif named Pat Conley, he finds has what may be the most powerful anti-psychic talent the world has ever seen. She can [[{{Retcon}} rewrite the past itself]] to counteract precognitive predictions. Chip hardly has time to process this before Runciter whisks the two of them and a handful of others away to the moon for a lucrative operation against his rival, Ray Hollis, head of a psychic spy firm. But the operation quickly sours when an explosion grievously wounds Runciter. The team heads back to Earth, desperate to save their boss by putting him into cold-pac.

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Meet Joe Chip, our protagonist: a technician working for Runciter who's so perpetually broke he has to argue with his (coin-operated) [[InstantAIJustAddWater artificially intelligent appliances]] to get them to work. When one of Runciter's talent scouts comes to him with a MysteriousWaif named Pat Conley, he finds has what may be the most powerful anti-psychic talent the world has ever seen. She can [[{{Retcon}} rewrite the past itself]] to counteract precognitive predictions. Chip hardly has time to process this before Runciter whisks the two of them and a handful of others away to the moon for a lucrative operation against his rival, Ray Hollis, head of a psychic spy firm. But the operation quickly sours when an explosion grievously wounds Runciter. The team heads back to Earth, desperate to save their boss by putting him into cold-pac.
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