Mindscan
by Sawyer, Robert J.Edition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-12-06
Publisher(s): Tor Books
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Summary
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.
Author Biography
Robert J. Sawyer is the Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids, the Nebula Award-winning author of The Terminal Experiment, and the Aurora Award-winning author of FlashForward, basis for the ABC TV series. He is also the author of the WWW series—Wake, Watch and Wonder—and many other books. He was born in Ottawa and lives in Toronto.
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Praise for Mindscan:
"Sawyer lucidly explores fascinating philosophical conundrums."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A tale involving courtroom drama, powerful human emotion and challenging SF mystery. Sawyer juggles it all with intelligence and far-reaching vision worthy of Isaac Asimov."
--Starlog
"Sawyer lucidly explores fascinating philosophical conundrums."
--Entertainment Weekly
"A tale involving courtroom drama, powerful human emotion and challenging SF mystery. Sawyer juggles it all with intelligence and far-reaching vision worthy of Isaac Asimov."
--Starlog
"Sawyer deftly examines what a future might be like in two neighboring countries that have become polar opposites. And he focuses on the legal and moral ramifications involved in various definitions of humanity in an intriguing and stylistically fine story. Grade: A."
--Rocky Mountain News
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