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ROBERT J. SAWYER
Hugo and Nebula Winner

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MINDSCAN

A novel by Robert J. Sawyer

Tor Books Lead Science-Fiction Hardcover, April 2005
ISBN 0-765-31107-0

Tor Books Lead Science-Fiction Paperback, January 2006
ISBN 0-765-34975-2

Winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award!

• A selection of Doubleday's Science Fiction Book Club
• A Locus Bestseller in both hardcover and paperback

"An exciting crowd pleaser. Richly informed by current interdisciplinary research in the burgeoning field of consciousness studies, and alive with provocative speculation of its own, Mindscan is a heady brew of hard SF, blended with enough comedy, romance, and adventure to appeal to a wider audience, as well." —SFRA Review

• Opening chapters
• Typical passage (a quick taste of the novel)
• Review excerpts

• Publication-quality version of the book's cover
• US covers
• Science Fiction Book Club catalog copy
• Dustjacket text
• Dustjacket scan

• Acknowledgments

• Interview with Rob about Mindscan, in Word format — journalists, feel free to quote
• Bookloons column on Mindscan
• SF Site on Mindscan
• Interview with Rob about Mindscan by European website SF Crowsnest

• Reading-group / book-club guide
• Further reading
• The outline that sold this book

• On Ray Kurzweil's "The Age of Spiritual Machines"

• Attention students: Mindscan was the catalyst for Donald G. Oakley to write the nonfiction book In Search of the Self: The Riddle of Personal Existence (Eyrie Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-9619465-5-5); Sawyer's novel, and the philosophical issues it raises, are extensively discussed in the book, especially in the first two chapters.

  Mindscan is also discussed in The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) and in Science Fiction and Philosophy edited by Susan Schneider (Blackwell, 2009).

  Further discussion of Mindscan can be found in The Gospel According to Science Fiction by Gabriel McKee (Westminster John Knox Press, 2007) and in Science Fiction and Philosophy edited by Susan Schneider (Blackwell, 2009).

  You'll also find a critical discussion of Mindscan in an article in SFRA Review, a publication of the Science Fiction Research Association, issue #272 (April/May/June 2005); the full text is available as a PDF document.

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