This was fucking wild.

In the future, the "only way to travel" is VOYACODE: think Westworld flesh and blood dummies where your "real" body is put into stasis and your consciousness is uploaded into the dummy, conveniently located on another planet so you can explore the sites and go home with no fuss, no muss, at insanely high prices.

The beginning of the story even addresses how people were morally opposed to this and then had to get over it so that technology could advance forward. Pretty scary stuff for a children's book from 1978, if you ask me.

This book follows an eleven-year-old boy who goes to visit his aunt via VOYACODE and ends up having to save her life.