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This week, discover Body Tourists by Jane Rogers.

Body Tourists

By Jane Rogers

  • Genre: Sci-Fi ; Anticipation
  • Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON
  • Language: English
  • Publication year: 2019

Why should you adapt this book into a TV series ?

BODY TOURISTS examines a range of social and political issues: gender issues, as a female is transposed into a male body; the ethics of mind/brain storage and transplantation; the neuroscience of identity; inequality between young and old, with the richer old appropriating the one thing the young have which the old covet – youthful bodies; and the increasing polarisation of our society geographically and in terms of class, employment and wealth. So many thought-provoking topics to explore for a promising screen adaptation!

What’s the story ?

A speculative science fiction novel exploring a world in which personality and memory can be stored digitally after death, and inserted into other living bodies. Wealthy deceased people become short-stay ‘tourists’ in young, living bodies in this dystopic thought experiment.

Comparables

Black Mirror

About the author

Jane Rogers is a British writer. Her novels include THE TESTAMENT OF JESSIE LAMB (Canongate/2012), which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, and won the Arthur C. Clarke Award. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Writers’ Guild Best Fiction Book Award.

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