I have been reading EP for a while and have a game started as of last fall, but I would like to echo the OP comments, this game made role playing games something 'New' for me again, and there have not been that many games that have done that for me in a while. Cheers.

Strangely, I had been reading John Scalzi's "Old Man's War" series and I was buzzed on the idea of consciousness transfer. I don't know how, perhaps related to Catalyst Labs and Shadowrun 4th Edition somehow, and reading Eclipse Phase's keywords and themes... I was set deep into orbital decay, destined to spiral into the Singularity. It made gaming and science-fiction somewhere fun to explore again. It was daring, provocative, and unflinching. Game and setting integrated well. It oozed with tantalization and beckoned the ritually-careful beyond their safety zones, into darkly mesmerizing places. And don't think I didn't notice the parallelism between consciousness transfer in game and the "virtual" consciousness transfer we may label the whole roleplaying (or even as far as fiction itself) experience.

I feel the need to express my gratitude, and maybe on several other's behalf, but I adore how the hardcovers and such all come with installed bookmarks. The rest of the universe should do it as a matter of course, but I like how we are shown how much they care about their readers and admirers. :)