The Müller-Fokker Effect

[DrWho42 13]

Has anyone ever read this excellent science fiction novel? It's sadly out-of-print, but well worth seeking out.

Can a human being be reconstitued like orange juice?

 

To find out, the Army backs a futuristic research project that transfers a man's personality onto computer tapes. Guinea pig for the experiment is technical writer and dreamer Bob Shairp.

 

But the project barely gets off the ground when a computer accident wipes out Shairp's mortal body and only his tapes remain. Is Shairp doomed to this state forever? Or can the bizarre process be reversed?

John Sladek also has an equally good short story "The Great Wall of Mexico" that was available on Sci Fiction (which didn't make the Syfy transfer but is thankfully archived by Archive.org: SCI FICTION | The Great Wall of Mexico).