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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
AccidentalTroper
Since: Feb, 2014

I read this book in the 90s, so it was from that era or earlier. In the future, scientists develop transporters, like Star Trek, but they are able to store the "pattern" of a person and then bring them back multiple times. The main character is a soldier who, after every battle, he and the other soldiers are dematerialized, and then when the next war starts, they're brought back to fight in that one. After a while the MC realizes that hundreds of years have gone by, and the people in charge don't consider the soldiers stored in the computer to be real people any more. The climax of the book is MC finding the main computer where the digital copies of all the soldiers are stored and destroying it so they can't be brought back any more. Does this sound familiar to anyone?