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  • This was a great book, although I could have done without the hostage thing at the end. Couldn't there be a better way for him to die? I understand that he had to but at least the author could have put in something that didn't make you feel bad for him.

    

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• ― makeawishserena said on Apr 30, 2008 | Add your feedback

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  • Brilliant thought provoking work

  • What makes me, me. This book explores the issues associated with mind versus body in a scientific and philosophical way. If you do not like thinking about difficult questions, stay away, but if you like to ponder the imponderable this book id for you -- whoever you are.

    

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• ― kensington said on Jan 11, 2008 about the Hardcover edition| 1 feedback| 1 feedback

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.

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