Mnemoscan

A tense, gripping, and philosophically rich work in which moral conflicts and grand ideas are based on advanced scientific achievements.
Jake Sullivan manages to cheat death. Faced with a terminal illness, he transfers his consciousness into an android body, which guarantees... him virtual immortality. The same is done by other billionaires. Thanks to a new procedure of mnemoscanning, they send their outdated and doomed human shells to a luxurious center on the far side of the Moon, while they remain on Earth in new bodies.
But not everything goes according to plan. Although the new mnemoscan allows Jake to find a love previously unavailable to him, his beloved faces a lawsuit: her son refuses to recognize the mnemoscan as the same person as the prototype and demands inheritance. Meanwhile, on the Moon, biological Jake, thanks to advances in medical nanotechnology, heals from his illness and decides to return.
Who is real now? Who has the rights of personality – the biological original or the copy to whom he granted them? And what does it mean to be human?

Author: Роберт Сойер

Printhouse: Eksmo

Series: Fanzon. Robert Sawyer. Images of the Future

Age restrictions: 16+

Year of publication: 2025

ISBN: 9785042112973

Number of pages: 400

Size: 217х146х25 mm

Cover type: hard

Weight: 464 g

ID: 1729954

A tense, gripping, and philosophically rich work in which moral conflicts and grand ideas are based on advanced scientific achievements.
Jake Sullivan manages to cheat death. Faced with a terminal illness, he transfers his consciousness into an android body, which guarantees him virtual immortality. The same is done by other billionaires. Thanks to a new procedure of mnemoscanning, they send their outdated and doomed human shells to a luxurious center on the far side of the Moon, while they remain on Earth in new bodies.
But not everything goes according to plan. Although the new mnemoscan allows Jake to find a love previously unavailable to him, his beloved faces a lawsuit: her son refuses to recognize the mnemoscan as the same person as the prototype and demands inheritance. Meanwhile, on the Moon, biological Jake, thanks to advances in medical nanotechnology, heals from his illness and decides to return.
Who is real now? Who has the rights of personality – the biological original or the copy to whom he granted them? And what does it mean to be human?