I like Charles Sheffield's books a lot. He generally stays on the practical side of science, restricting himself to science that is probably possible, given what the science community knows and believes at the time he writes a story. It may not have warp drives or wormholes, but he does a good job of creating good stories within the limits he sets for himself.

Make no mistake: the stories are not limited, just the science. And the science is not all that limited, just a bit more realistic than much of the science fiction that is out there.

This particular book focuses largely on the possibilities of a partial brain transplant when two identical twins with very different lives are involved in the same helicopter crash. Questions of identity and responsibility give the surviving or merged twin a lot of literal and figurative headaches.

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Actually, I'm not sure of the date. It was on a table in the back.