false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175978627m/580196.jpg 580196 2 Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids, the first volume of his bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, won the 2003 Hugo Award, and its sequel, Human, 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. "Mindscan is both a love story and a parable about the possibility of fixed beliefs in a world of constantly shifting morality and ethics. Sawyer keeps his very readable tale moving by rooting it all in characters who have just enough humanity to have conflicted and occasionally contradictory reactions to the new realities." -- Quill Quire This is Sawyer at his best: compelling characters, an intriguing and involving plot, and deep philosophic themes backed by credible scientific reasoning. Mindscan will resonate in your thoughts for a long time after you have closed the book. -- The Record A fascinating look into our collective tomorrow, Mindscan takes us on a witty and wise fast-forward to the year 2045Much like the socially aware science fiction of Vancouvers Spider Robinson, Sawyer works hard to bring a Canadian flavour to the sci-fi universe. -- Monday Magazine 567098 book 4 2005 Mindscan total:191|5:35|4:83|3:62|2:8|1:3| 191 712 262 19 3 1 false false Sat Apr 19 18:51:12 -0700 2008 Mon Jun 02 09:09:14 -0700 2008
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It is full of the weighty hard sci-fi he is rightly famous for, set in an authentic near-future world. It has multiple intertwining plotlines and is just written very wel...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Jul 17 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 07 10:18:39 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 22:30:19 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Apr 07 18:48:23 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 15 05:52:30 -0700 2009 3 0 true false Tue Dec 30 19:22:22 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 23 14:35:41 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 true false Mon Oct 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 20:00:41 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 05 20:03:55 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Tue Jan 20 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Dec 27 10:05:47 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 26 15:42:26 -0800 2009 Futuristic story. Wealthy old folks can upload themselves via "mindscan" into almost-real-looking androids to live forever on earth. Their "skins" go to a high-end resort on the far side of the moon to live out t...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 23 13:52:02 -0700 2008 Wed Jul 23 13:54:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat May 31 15:54:28 -0700 2008 Sat May 31 15:57:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Nov 17 02:21:51 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 17 02:24:30 -0800 2007 2 0 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 03:47:58 -0700 2007 Sat Oct 13 03:50:25 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Wed Sep 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Aug 28 15:49:23 -0700 2008 Wed Sep 03 07:47:21 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Oct 16 11:06:54 -0700 2008 Thu Oct 16 11:06:54 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Sat Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 22 23:59:52 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 22 23:59:52 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Nov 25 16:30:20 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 16:30:23 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=580196