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| 3 | * Richard Morgan, major proponent of modern HumansAreTheRealMonsters sci-fi, can reach NightmareFuel levels through sheer cynicism. |
| 4 | * People's minds are backed up on in-brain memory and easily transferred to another body (or 'sleeve'). Major societal change from this? AFateWorseThanDeath is now standard procedure. They're JackBauerInterrogationTechnique {{Lotus Eater Machine}}s, pretty much. |
| 5 | * Quellcrist Falconer's fate after the attack on Millsport at the end of the Unsettlement: her body vaporized, and her mind trapped in a Martian data storage system for ''three hundred years''. One of the downsides of having the technology to back your mind up somewhere. |
| 6 | * The Qualgrist Protocol from ''Woken Furies'', a [[HatePlague bioweapon]] from the Unsettlement developed by the Quellists that uses GeneticMemory coupled with a symptomless virus to create a pheromone-based biological response in anyone carrying the right genes who got infected, so that they are compelled to try and kill anyone with Harlan family genes. While the Unsettlement was an example of TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized, the fact that Nadia Makita ultimately deploys the Protocol ''while hallucinating'' and while she's unsure whether or not she's real ensures that the events following the conclusion of the novel will almost certainly be bloody and horrible. |
| 7 | * All of Kovacs' hallucinations/memories of Innenin and the viral strike there, including but not limited to [[EyeScream Jimmy DeSoto clawing out his own eye]]. Arguably, what makes this truly nightmarish is not the event itself, but the fact that Envoys are conditioned to have [[PhotographicMemory perfect recall]] and so can't truly forget anything they experience, even if they also have the conditioning to lock away trauma so it doesn't destroy their psyches. |
| 8 | * The very real possibility discussed in FridgeHorror that all of the re-sleeving is really just cloning and brainwashing rather than a transfer of "you." |
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