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Mindscan
by: Robert J. Sawyer
List Price: $24.95
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Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765311078
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0765311070
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 304
Publication Date: April 01, 2005
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: March 10, 2005
Studio: Tor Books
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Product Description:
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.
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.
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- Great idea, poor execution. Author not as clever as he thinks he is.Mindscan has a great idea at its core in exploring the Philip K Dick theme of "What it means to be human" in the context of copying one's mind to an android and then discussing which one is more real but it falls well short, especially as compared to Dick, in the execution department. The first third of the book is great but then it proceeds to fall apart. The story becomes a long diatribe/essay in which the author isn't nearly as clever as he thinks he is. In fact, I found his tone insulting. ... Read More
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- A Thoughtful FutureMINDSCAN (published April 2005) is the third SF book I have read by Robert J. Sawyer. The others, ROLLBACK (2007) and WWW: WAKE (2009) I gave four stars out of five to - MINDSCAN in my view merits five.
I'm taken by a basic structural uniqueness in the novel. It is written in the first person, I, not We, but, how to say it, "I-plural". Through fictional science this can be done. I loved it. When a person is mindscanned by the Immortex Corporation it's a little bit like the multiple ... Read More
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- An enthralling existential dramaThis book is awesome, at par with Philip K. Dick weirdest novels. Jake Sullivan's man's soul is divided: an uploaded consciousness inhabits an artificial body, whilst the supposedly dooomed original is whisked on a nursing home on the other face of the moon. Only, the brain vessel condition that affected Jake,and that killed his father in an oedipal scene, turns out tho be curable...too late! Meanwhile, the uploaded Jake , the "Mindscan", found love and company in a rellw uploaded, the writer Karen, ... Read More
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- Strong storyline ... Average CharactersThe strengths of Sawyer's novels have been the combination of strong, science fiction storylines coupled with complex characters.
Unfortunately, MINDSCAN, fails on the latter point.
The premise has been discussed at length, so there's no need to cover ground that other reviewers have described.
But, if you're interested in consciousness and the philosophical debate about the existence of a soul, then you should find this novel quite enjoyable.
The characters, ... Read More
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- Couldn't put it downWow. I couldn't put this book down until I finished it. This is an excellent SciFi novel. Smooth as silk plotting and prose. Great fleshed out charactors, in a tale with lots of heart. Can't believe I've never read anything by this author, but I'm glad he's written quite a bit for me to catch up on. :)
Highly Recommended!
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