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1970's book where near-immortal people live in domes and a machine brings them back when they die

Science Fiction & Fantasy Asked by net3431 on December 18, 2020

I believe it’s by a woman author. It’s her most famous book.

It depicted a world far in the future, where humans live in domes and are more or less immortal. Every time they die they return to a machine that tries to teach them and then return them to life in whatever form they prefer.

The narrator starts off as a woman and becomes a man later in the book and it deals somewhat with the trauma of that. She goes camping in a small dome and her dog gets killed. Wealthy people are fitted with wings.

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This is possibly the duology by Tanith Lee consisting of Don't Bite the Sun and Drinking Sapphire Wine. The nameless protagonist is a misfit and is trying to find fulfillment in their life - at their age they're supposed to be all about hedonism -, and is constantly suiciding and getting new bodies. The domes are named - I only remember Four BEE and Four BAA.

Correct answer by cycad on December 18, 2020

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