I was just rereading What Makes This Book So Great by Jo Walton and she mentions in chapter 27, in her essay on Middlemarch, books where "one mind is shared across five bodies." Now I really want to find some examples of this trope to compare and contrast!
For a sense of my tastes, I've already read (and was blown away by) Octavia E. Butler's Patternmaster books. I love the way she explores the messy particularities of embodiment and conscious.
by marxistghostboi