Mind Transfer (novel)

Mind Transfer (novel)
Mind Transfer  
Author(s) Janet Asimov
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Soft Science Fiction,
First Contact,
Mind uploading fiction,
Political novel
Publisher Walker Publishing Company (New York)
Publication date 1988
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 312 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-8027-6748-6 (Hardcover edition)
OCLC Number 17662265
LC Classification PZ7.A836 Mi 1988

Mind Transfer is a science fiction novel by Janet Asimov (as Janet Jeppson Asimov), published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc. in 1988.

Plot

The novel journeys through the birth, life, death, and second life of a man whose family pioneers human-to-android mind transfer. It also explores the ethical and moral issues of transferring consciousness into an android at the moment of death, and examines the idea of prematurely activating an android which has not yet accepted a human brain scan.

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