Robert Sawyer MINDSCAN
I have done some recon for SF novels, and think Robert Sawyer's latest, MINDSCAN, should be on the list. It looks like a return the kind of story that made him famous; technology infringing upon moral decisions. Sawyer's home page has a lot of material to review about the book, and all of his books for that matter. MINDSCAN has been included in lists of the classics of SF, FRANKENSTEIN and THE TIME MACHINE. I have read the short story (Shed Skin) that includes the concepts in MINDSCAN. It is thought provoking, and a little reminiscent of Varley. Sawyer's politics are sharply left-wing, and yet he somehow manages to perceive the ethical dilemma his ideas would cause. This makes him worth reading, at least when he isn't propagandizing evolution as he did in the HOMINIDS trilogy. So go to the links above and inform yourself on this book. If it is anything like THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT, I think I will want to read it, sooner rather than later.
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