Mnemoscan
14.99 €
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Mnemoscan
14.99 €
A tense, gripping, and philosophically charged work in which moral conflicts and grand ideas are based on cutting-edge scientific advances.
Jake Sullivan manages to cheat death. Faced with a terminal illness, he transfers his consciousness into an android body, granting him virtual immortality. Other billionaires do the same. Thanks to a new mnemoscanning procedure, they send their aging and doomed human shells to a luxurious center on the far side of the Moon, while they remain on Earth in their new bodies.
But not everything goes according to plan. Although the new mnemoscan Jake finds a love previously unattainable, his beloved faces a lawsuit: her son refuses to recognize the mnemoscan as the same person as the prototype and demands her inheritance. Meanwhile, on the Moon, the biological Jake, thanks to advances in medical nanotechnology, is cured of his illness and decides to return.
Who is the real deal now? Who has the rights of personality—the biological original or the copy to whom he ceded them? And what does it mean to be human?
Jake Sullivan manages to cheat death. Faced with a terminal illness, he transfers his consciousness into an android body, granting him virtual immortality. Other billionaires do the same. Thanks to a new mnemoscanning procedure, they send their aging and doomed human shells to a luxurious center on the far side of the Moon, while they remain on Earth in their new bodies.
But not everything goes according to plan. Although the new mnemoscan Jake finds a love previously unattainable, his beloved faces a lawsuit: her son refuses to recognize the mnemoscan as the same person as the prototype and demands her inheritance. Meanwhile, on the Moon, the biological Jake, thanks to advances in medical nanotechnology, is cured of his illness and decides to return.
Who is the real deal now? Who has the rights of personality—the biological original or the copy to whom he ceded them? And what does it mean to be human?
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- All books in the series Fanzon. Robert Sawyer. Visions of the Future