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... had moved on from them.
122) Mindscan by Robert Sawyer (2005)
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Another intelligent scifi novel by Sawyer. Set in the near future where it's now possible to have your consciousness copied into a ... I'm about to read Robert J Sawyer's Mindscan,finished his WWW:Wake a couple of weeks ago which was excellent. ... thought I should see what he's been writing lately.
He's won scifi awards for Hominids, The Terminal Experiment, and Mindscan, all of which I'd like to read but have to track down copies of them first. His Flash Forward is to be a tv series starring Joseph Fiennes. ... the year before that, Ben Bova winning the Campbell for Titan (and Robert Sawyer the year before that with Mindscan). I think it is all another example of the conservatism of the SF field in the US at the moment. In every case there have been better novels on the list IMNSHO. ... author Sawyer. In the same vein and style of some of his previous works (Flash Forward, The Terminal Experiment and Mindscan, for instance) Rollback is the story of an old married couple; Don and his wife Sarah, who back in the early twenty first century, discovered an intelligent alien ... Mindscan by Robert Sawyer would qualify, I suppose. It's a novel, though. ... of the Queen by Mercedes Lackey
Calculating God by Robert J. Sawyer
Illegal Alien by Robert J. Sawyer
Mindscan by Robert J. Sawyer
Rebecca by Daphne Du Mauier
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Angus, thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Renniso ... ... book by Mieville. I'm very much looking forward to it.
I did pick up two more books by Robert J. Sawyer today - Mindscan and Illegal Alien. I hope I enjoy them as much as the The Neanderthal Parallax. I'm not sure when I'll begin reading them. I need more time! I tried Iterations, Mindscan, Frameshift and The Terminal Experiment, and I have Hominids that I haven't started. I just can't get into his style of writing. I'm not saying he's a bad writer, far from it; it's just that when I start reading him, my mind immediately starts to wander.
He' ... ... issues it brought up.
After reading Hominids, I didn't bother with Humans and have not kept current. His latest are Mindscan which my husband read and enjoyed (if I remember correctly), and the new one in April is Rollback.
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