story identification - Novel where power outage causes teleportation accident and the version on the sending side survives and becomes a fugitive
Read a book a long time (at least 10-15 years) ago about a man (I'm pretty sure he was rich, or at least well off) in a future where teleportation was normal mode of transport. He's going to teleport when there's a power outage (due to storm?) and the teleportation fails. He soon finds out that it only partially failed and he did materialize on the receiving side, but did not dematerialize on the sending side. The receiving side is the legally viable version and the sending side version is basically a fugitive.
Other points I'm not 100% sure of:
- I'm pretty sure this was by a fairly famous sci-fi author
- The fail-safe is to not destroy the sending copy until the receiving copy is complete and the power failure happens at the exact right moment
- It is mentioned that there is religious protest against teleportation as they consider this to basically be murdering the sending copy.
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