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Continuum Fiction: any story where at least one character, at some point, recognizes a continuum of existence of self, recalling with certainty having been and acted as various identities in the past, with a current awareness of the distinction of self in the present, whether gained through exposure to elements in the story (revelation/epiphany) or with an existing awareness at the story's inception.

Continuum Fiction does not preclude cloning (such as Palpatine in the "Star Wars" universe), genetic streams (such as "Dune"), or mechanical transference, such as computer storage of consciousness as occurs in many sci-fi stories. However, to be true Continuum Fiction the true person, the true identity, the soul, the spirit -- however you define it, the person themselves, the real person and who they truly are, not a body, not a brain, not synapses or neurons or genetic copies; a true spiritual reincarnation -- must transit to a new awareness, body, etc.