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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Tor Science Fiction
Publication date December 1, 2005
Pages 370
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780765349750
ISBN-10 0765349752
Dimensions 1 by 4.25 by 6.75 in.
Weight 0.45 lbs.
Original list price $7.99
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Transplanting his consciousness into an android body in order to escape death, Jake Sullivan finds himself falling in love with the android Karen, who is being sued by her son for his inheritance, a situation that is further complicated when Jake's biological body takes hostages and demands its mind back. Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. Reprint.
Amazon.com description: Product Description:

Hugo Award-winning author Robert J. Sawyer is back with Mindscan, 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.



Editions
Hardcover
Book cover for 9780765311078
 
from Tor Books (April 30, 2005)
9780765311078 | details & prices | 303 pages | 5.75 × 8.50 × 1.25 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $24.95
About: Transplanting his consciousness into an android body in order to escape death, Jake Sullivan falls in love with the android Karen, a situation that is further complicated when Jake's biological body takes hostages and demands its mind back.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780195535839 Book cover for 9780765329905 Book cover for 9780765349750
 
Reprint edition from Tor Books (December 6, 2011)
9780765329905 | details & prices | 302 pages | 5.50 × 8.50 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $19.99
About: Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form.
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Reprint edition from Tor Science Fiction (December 1, 2005)
9780765349750 | details & prices | 370 pages | 4.25 × 6.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.45 lbs | List price $7.99
About: Transplanting his consciousness into an android body in order to escape death, Jake Sullivan finds himself falling in love with the android Karen, who is being sued by her son for his inheritance, a situation that is further complicated when Jake's biological body takes hostages and demands its mind back.
With Ann Young, Ann R. M. Young | from Oxford Univ Pr (July 1, 1996); titled "Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788"
9780195535839 | details & prices | 238 pages | 7.25 × 10.00 × 0.75 in. | 1.25 lbs | List price $49.95
This edition also contains Environmental Change in Australia Since 1788
About: This book reviews the environmental changes which have occurred in Australia since European settlement.

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