The Uploaded

A “sharp, weird, and wildly innovative” cyberpunk family drama set in a world run by the afterlife—from a Nebula Award finalist (Cherie Priest, Locus Award-winning author of Boneshaker)

In the near future, the minds of the deceased are uploaded into the computer network, where they control the world from the afterlife. For those still on Earth, living is just waiting to die—and maintaining the vast servers which support digital Heaven.
 
For one orphan that just isn''t enough. He wants more for himself and his sister than a life of slaving away for the dead. And it turns out he’s not the only one who wants to reset the world...