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Welcome to HRRZI – The Digital Home of Hedley Rainnie

  If you recognize the DECsystem-20 assembly instruction in the URL, you are in exactly the right place. Welcome. I am a retired firmware engineer, a lifelong science fiction fan, and the author of the hard sci-fi corporate thriller, Mind the Machines . About the Book What if death wasn’t the end, but the start of a different kind of life? LifeSim Inc. has made the impossible real: a digital afterlife where minds can live forever. But when consciousness becomes a service, ownership becomes a question. Mind the Machines explores the unsettling cost of eternal existence—and the quiet terror of discovering that your future may belong to someone else.  In paperback and Kindle https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Machines-Hedley-Rainnie-ebook/dp/B0GT8RD16X Also on Goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/250164231-mind-the-machines About the Author Hedley is a retired firmware engineer living in Silicon Valley. His lifelong passion for science fiction began at age eight, when he sat b...