Om NKCampbell och / eller Valorum vill ta kredit för detta svar när de först uppstod idén, är de välkomna till punkterna. Eftersom inget svar listades, sätter jag in det här för nu.
Jag kommer att föreslå den ursprungliga källan som Immortality Inc av Robert Sheckley. Även om det inte var en ren hjärntransplantation i sig är det generella begreppet en överföring av tankar verkligen detsamma. Särskilt att berättelsen matchar alla andra detaljer som anges i den länkade synopsisen och från vad jag minns att läsa.
Poäng som matchar:
Check. The story opens with Thomas Blaine driving down a New Jersey highway. He is returning to New York, where he works with a yacht-designing firm, after a week long vacation at his Chesapeake Bay cabin. Blaine suddenly loses control of his car and swerves into an on-coming vehicle.** The story reads, "…At that moment he knew he was dying. An instant later he knew that he was quickly, commonly, messily, painlessly dead."
Då vaknar han i en ny kropp
Check. Blaine wakes up in a hospital bed, as the next chapter begins.
och det förklaras att hans hjärna sparades
Check. He is in a room surrounded by medical personnel. They are commenting on his reactions to waking up, realizing he is still alive. Blaine also meets Marie Thorne. He views her as attractive but coldly professional. She too is interested in his responses. She tells him that his body has died but that they have saved his mind and given him a new body.
Allt går bra tills hans kroppsgivarens fru dyker upp.
Check. He is on the street one day, when a woman seems to be staring at him. They speak; she recognizes the body as that of her husband's Frank Kranch.