Damien Broderick wrote:
>
> At 07:32 PM 12/10/98 -0800, Eric Ruud wrote:
>
> >Supposing somewhere far in the future humanity (or possibly even some other
> >intelligent life form) develops time travel.
> >They might, however, be able to upload personalities into a computer at the
> >moment of death, thusly not changing anything in that reality.
>
> Spider Robinson wrote a couple of novels based on just that premise. I
> believe DEATHKILLER was the first of the sequence. LIFEHOUSE. Maybe one
> more.
"Deathkiller" contains "Mindkiller" and "Time Pressure"; the one you're looking for is "Time Pressure".
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