The Eternal Cold : Skeleton Crew

First in the astounding Skeleton Crew series by the master of science fiction R. M. Gordge. High concept drama set thousands of years in the future within the realm of mankind's closest neighbor in the galaxy. In an idyllic future there is no need to turn to crime, and yet Arc has chosen to be a villain. He is captured and after being dead for a time he awakes back into this world to find that his memory is gone and he is at the mercy of harsh galactic law. It soon becomes clear to him that things are very wrong in our future, and perhaps this idyllic empire of the stars is the opposite of what they portray themselves to be. Firmly in the clutches of this terrible empire he believes that all is lost, when he hears a voice, a whisper in his mind. Arc had died but wasn't entirely gone. Pushed back deeper into his mind a second split personality formed, and remembers everything, and knows a way to fight back.