Five Minds

Description

ONE BODY. FIVE MINDS. ONE MURDERER. The Earth’s population has finally been controlled. At the age of seventeen, you must choose how you die. As a worker, living and dying as nature intended. As an android, your mind downloaded into a human-like form, and given eighty years of sentience. As a hedonist, with unlimited money and leisure, but dead at forty-two. Or as a commune, five minds sharing one body, each living four hours a day, but with a combined existence of over a century. Alex, Kate, Sierra, Ben and Mike are a commune, an uneasy and often quarrelsome arrangement, their years of rivalries and arguments splitting them into factions. Toward the end of their first life, they travel to a Death Park where games are played in which time can be gambled and won to increase lifespans. The plan is to win time to upgrade their next body. But then Kate accepts a dangerous offer, and one of them disappears. As the remaining members realise that one of the commune is trying to murder the others, the games become about mere survival. But they are running out of time to figure out which of them is a killer…