The end game is described in this short story: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/1995-egan.pdf
Either that, or something nasty like the Gonchong from the Fighting Fantasy book series Island of the Lizard King.
I would post a link, but the only standalone topic page is on a Fandom site, which counts as doubly morbid.
Who is the author?
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=EGreg
Greg Egan. It’s in his excellent short story collection “Axiomatic”.
Greg Egan.
Great writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan
Why do people think we're going to live forever. We hardly understand anything about the body.
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Either that, or something nasty like the Gonchong from the Fighting Fantasy book series Island of the Lizard King.
I would post a link, but the only standalone topic page is on a Fandom site, which counts as doubly morbid.
Who is the author?
https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=EGreg
Greg Egan. It’s in his excellent short story collection “Axiomatic”.
Greg Egan.
Great writer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Egan
Why do people think we're going to live forever. We hardly understand anything about the body.
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