By Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids, the 1st quantity of his bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, received the 2003 Hugo Award, and its sequel, people, was once a 2004 Hugo nominee. Now he's again with a pulse-pounding, mind-expanding standalone novel, wealthy along with his signature philosophical and moral speculations, all grounded in state of the art science.
Jake Sullivan has cheated loss of life: he's discarded his doomed organic physique and copied his recognition into an android shape. the recent Jake quickly reveals love, anything that eluded him whilst he used to be encased in flesh: he falls for the android model of Karen, a lady rediscovering all of the joys of lifestyles now that she's not limited by means of a tired physique either.
But all of sudden Karen's son sues her, claiming that by means of importing into an immortal physique, she has performed him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the unique model of Jake, consigned to die at the some distance aspect of the moon, has taken hostages there, tough the go back of his rights of personhood. within the court docket and at the lunar floor, the way forward for uploaded humanity hangs within the balance.
Mindscan is classic Sawyer — a banquet for the brain and the guts.
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They were machines, made of dark, glistening metal, and they towered above her. Spots of white light from some unknown source winked off metallic surfaces, and reflected from coils and condensers. They didn't even look like objects. They were like the ghosts of objects because their shapes were indistinct, ambiguous, swathed in a darkness that had gradation and depth, and was textured with the layers of silence. A voice crackled in the tiny radio bug implanted in her ear. "Julie? " It was Stan Myakov-sky, calling from the Dolomite's central control room.
He had taught her to develop her latent senses so that she could register things without literally seeing or hearing them. That ability came to her rescue now. Yes, it was not just imagination. There was some-thing near, and it was situated right over ... there! She whirled as a great looming thing detached itself from the deep knot of shadows near a gigantic machine that lay shrouded in its own dust. She found it fascinating, the way the shadows moved and grew, like something not human, the way they resolved into one, and that shadow suddenly turned solid and launched itself at her with an explosive hiss.
He seemed startled by what he saw, yet uncaring, as if it didn't matter what the world threw at him next. There was a small black-and-white TV on the table, and he turned it off. "Hello, Captain Hoban," Stan said. Hoban took his time about answering. He seemed to be reorienting himself in the real world, after a long trip to some unimaginable place, perhaps to the time of his trouble in the asteroids. At last he said, "It is you, isn't it? " "Hi," Stan said. " Hoban nodded, then looked around. He seemed aware for the first time of the apartment's appearance.