I loved Hominids and have since gone on to read several by Robert J. Sawyer - all pretty good stuff! I really love the premise of this book - being able to achieve immortality by downloading your brain is a fascinating concept and provides hours of rumination and discussion with fellow sci-fi buffs. Also, I had a chance to meet him at When Words Collide 2012 here in Calgary. He is a fabulous and entertaining speaker and very gracious about signing books for his fans.

Product Description
Robert J. Sawyer's Hominids, the first volume of his bestselling Neanderthal Parallax trilogy, won the 2003 Hugo Award, and its sequel, Humans, was a 2004 Hugo nominee. Now he's back with a pulse-pounding, mind-expanding standalone novel, rich with his signature philosophical and ethical speculations, all grounded in cutting-edge science.
Jake Sullivan has cheated death: he's discarded his doomed biological body and copied his consciousness into an android form. The new Jake soon finds love, something that eluded him when he was encased in flesh: he falls for the android version of Karen, a woman rediscovering all the joys of life now that she's no longer constrained by a worn-out body either.
But suddenly Karen's son sues her, claiming that by uploading into an immortal body, she has done him out of his inheritance. Even worse, the original version of Jake, consigned to die on the far side of the moon, has taken hostages there, demanding the return of his rights of personhood. In the courtroom and on the lunar surface, the future of uploaded humanity hangs in the balance.
Mindscan is vintage Sawyer -- a feast for the mind and the heart.

I am adding this great sci-fi read to Erishkigal's Sci-Fi Bookbox. I hope the next reader enjoys it as much as I did!

I chose this book from Erishkigal's Sci-Fi bookbox. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about Robert Sawyer's writing, but I do love the interesting ideas he covers in his novels and his fast-moving and gripping plots. This one sounds like it will be a good read. Thanks, Minerva101, for putting it in the box.

As with most of the other Robert Sawyer books I've read, the characters and dialogue are the weak points in this novel. However, the ideas are fascinating, and Sawyer wraps them in a story that is well-paced and readable. It's a very thought-provoking book that touches on artificial intelligence, mortality, bioethics and much more.

Thanks again, Minerva101, for making this book available. I'm sorry I'd kept in on my shelves for so long, but it's travelling again!

I've sent this book to the winner of the Canadian Literature Sweepstakes. I thought it would be a good choice, as Robert Sawyer is one of Canada's most celebrated SF writers and also because Sawyer frequently mentions things about Canada and Canadian culture throughout his books.

Thanks, mathgirl40.