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Mindscan

by Robert J Sawyer

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ISBN13: 9780765349750
ISBN10: 0765349752
Condition: Standard
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Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids, the first volume of his bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, won the 2003 Hugo Award, and its sequel, Humans, was a 2004 Hugo nominee. Now he's back with a pulse-pounding, mind-expanding standalone novel, rich with his signature philosophical and ethical speculations, all grounded in cutting-edge science.

Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she's no longer constrained by a worn-out body either.

But suddenly Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance.

Mindscan is vintage Sawyer — a feast for the mind and the heart.

Synopsis:

Winner of the Hugo and Nebula awards for Best Novel. Jake Sullivan has cheated death by discarding his doomed biological body and copying his consciousness into an android. But the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, is demanding the return of his rights of personhood.

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ISBN:
9780765349750
Author:
Sawyer, Robert J
Publisher:
Tor Classics
Author:
Sawyer, Robert J.
Subject:
Science Fiction - General
Subject:
Ethics
Subject:
Human beings
Subject:
Science / General
Subject:
Science fiction
Publication Date:
January 2006
Binding:
Mass Market Paperbound
Language:
English
Pages:
367
Dimensions:
6.84x4.36x1.03 in. .40 lbs.

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