My Brother's Keeper

TIME-SHARING TWINS

Lionel Salkind was a rising musical star. His twin brother, Leo Foss, was a researcher in government work that he couldn't talk about. Then the helicopter they were flying crashed.

When he woke up, Lionel learned that both he and Leo had sustained fatal injuries, and he was only alive because the surgeon had used organs from Leo to repair Lionel's slightly less damaged body. More than half of Lionel's brain was gone, and had been replaced with Leo's Lionel, in fact, had become.

HIS BROTHERS KEEPER

"Sheffield's science is fascinating and convincing and so are his scientists."
  -Joe Haldeman

"Charles Sheffield is one of the very best hard science fiction writers in the world."
-Kim Stanley Robinson

"Sheffield's uncommon vision and storytelling skill will keep you on the edge of your seat." 
-David Brin

"One of the most imaginative, exciting talents to appear on the science fiction scene. . . "
-Publishers Weekly

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Cover art by Gary Ruddell

This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

First Baen printing, June 2000

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ISBN: 0-671-57873-1

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