The premise of this novel is that in 2048, the time in which the story is set, researchers have developed the technology to digitally upload human consciousness. A multi-billion dollar corporation called Immortex is selling the uploading process to elderly people, in order to provide them with "immortality." What they do is make a digital copy of a person's consciousness by taking a MRI-like snapshot of their entire neural configuration. Using this copy, they use something called a quantum fog, which remains momentarily quantally entangled with the original copy, to grow a replica brain out of nanogel. This synthetic brain is then placed inside a synthetic body, modeled to resemble the person's original body (at least at some point in their life) so as not to throw the mind's calibration off too badly.
A well written and highly enjoyable story, one that will leave you pondering the eternal question of what it means to be a human being.
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