Ferrett Steinmetz.
The Uploaded.
Angry Robot. 2017
Life sucks, and then you die…
In the near future, the elderly have moved online and their consciousnesses now live within the computer network. But that hasn't stopped them interfering in the lives of the living, whose sole real purpose now is to maintain the vast servers which support the new digital version of Heaven.
For one young orphan that just isn’t enough – he wants more for himself and his sister than a miserable life slaving away for the dead. It turns out that he’s not the only one who wants to reset the world…