Matter transmission is commonplace. All travel is done by it and the same technology is used to create backups of people and even copies which perform duties the original doesn't have time for (the experiences can't be combined so the consciousness is essentially saved for both copies). A lawyer gets an unusual case. His school time friend has created a copy from an old backup, and that copy doesn't want to be assimilated as the personalities have grown too different. Do both of them have a right to live?
First published in the magazine Analog Science Fiction-Fact, June 2005.
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| June 2005 |
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Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 2005 | Dell Magazines | MAGAZINE | 8 |
| June 2006 |
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Best Short Novels 2006 | Science Fiction Book Club | Anthology | 325 |
| July 2006 |
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | Prime Books | Anthology | 151 |
| September 2006 |
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | Prime Books | Anthology | 151 |
| October 2006 |
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | Prime Books | Anthology | 151 |
| October 2006 |
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | Prime Books | Anthology | 151 |
| January 2014 |
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Science Fiction: The Best of the Year, 2006 Edition | Wildside Press | Anthology | |151 |