Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles, like himself, have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets.

Things really start to get interesting when Bob discovers that he is not the only one on the mission, and the stakes are higher than he ever imagined. What follows is a thrilling adventure through space, filled with humor and unexpected challenges.