Mindclone: When you're a brain without a body, can you still be called human? - Softcover

Wolf, David T.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482626039 ISBN 13: 9781482626032

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

WHEN YOU’RE A BRAIN WITHOUT A BODY, CAN YOU STILL BE CALLED HUMAN? Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can’t feel his own body. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.” Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio--and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. His one compensation: a powerful digital brain. At Molly’s urging, he applies it to unearthing terrorist plots, aborting schoolyard mayhem, exposing congressional malfeasance and Wall Street chicanery. However, his good deeds gain the attention of a power-mad military contractor who will stop at nothing—theft, kidnapping and worse—to control the technology for his own ends. Without a body, how will Adam save himself – and the world – from a terrible fate? Mindclone, 94,000 words, is a serio-comic science fiction romance about the first successful mind-upload. It’s a book of ideas that explores looming advances in cognitive computing and neural networks, and what it means to be human even if you don’t have a body. Plus there’s a carbon-carbon-silicon love triangle, a redeemed ad-man, adventure, humor, frustrated romance, human and digital foibles, and as an extra added bonus, the defeat of death itself.

About this title

From the Author

This is David Wolf's first published novel. It draws on his long-standing interests in cognitive science, cyber technology and especially the defining characteristics that both separate and unite human beings with the rest of the animal kingdom--and in this case, sentient computers. The time he spent in the worlds of advertising and commercial television production has also been a source of inspiration.

David Wolf has written several other novels, including crime fiction and Young Adult. He hopes to see these in print at some point.

From the Inside Flap

Rave reviews for Mindclone

A great story, well-written. The AI is right on. Wolf has done his homework.
                                --Richard Waldinger (a principal scientist, Artificial Intelligence
                                Center, SRI International)

This fast-paced story was a bit like peeling an onion--many-layered, with the sweet spot near the end. Wolf's wit and clever knack with descriptions left me eager for the next book!
                                --Melanie Spiller (Technical Writer/Editor)

A cyber story and a people story, creatively woven into a first rate thriller. The cyber part is jaw-dropping in its possibilities, yet inviting to read. The people story is exciting and fast-paced, with characters that are intelligent, interesting and human.
                                --Dan Odishoo (Ad Agency President, ret.)

Comments from other reviews:

"A wild joyride...to the Singularity!"

"Can't put this book down!"

"Stimulating, convincing page-turner!"

"...a gripping story! Ridley Scott, are you listening?"

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482626039
• ISBN 13: 9781482626032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 326
• Illustrator: Gilmour Larry