Mindclone, David T. Wolf
Mindclone, David T. Wolf
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Mindclone
A Cyber-Consciousness Novel

Author: David T. Wolf

Narrator: Clifton Satterfield

Unabridged: 10 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: David T. Wolf

Published: 09/18/2018


Synopsis

WHEN YOU’RE A BRAIN WITHOUT A BODY, CAN YOU STILL BE CALLED HUMAN?Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can’t feel his own body. Accident? Stroke? Did someone slip him an overdose of Botox? The answer, he discovers, is much, much worse. He’s only a copy of Marc, a digital brain without a body, burdened with all Marc’s human memories, but without access to human sensual pleasures. Now he has to find a reason to keep on, um, “living.”Adam the Mindclone meets the real Marc Gregorio--and his new girlfriend Molly Schaeffer. Adam loves her, too. But how does a digital entity experience love? He can’t even experience pizza. His one compensation: a powerful digital brain. At Molly’s urging, he applies it to unearthing terrorist plots, aborting schoolyard mayhem, exposing congressional malfeasance and Wall Street chicanery. However, his good deeds gain the attention of a power-mad military contractor who will stop at nothing—theft, kidnapping and worse—to control the technology for his own ends. Without a body, how will Adam save himself – and the world – from a terrible fate?Mindclone, 94,000 words, is a book of ideas that explores looming advances in cognitive computing and neural networks, and what it means to be human even if you don’t have a body. Plus there’s a carbon-carbon-silicon love triangle, a redeemed ad-man, adventure, humor, frustrated romance, human and digital foibles, and as an extra added bonus, the defeat of death itself.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Richard on December 27, 2014

There aren't too many science fiction books that are quite so positive about near future sciences that may well allow the 'cloning' of the human mind. I got the strong impression that Wolf is contemplating/dreaming a life for himself as an artificial intelligence when his body gives up the ghost, th......more

Goodreads review by Karen on July 06, 2016

Mindclone is possibly the best independently published SF novel that I have ever read. The author's meticulous research into the field of Artificial Intelligence and his witty, accessible writing style made it a page turner that I was sorry to see end. As a neuroscientist who spent most of her time......more

Goodreads review by Angelo on March 24, 2014

Sci-Fi at its best. And a wild ride across several fields, Artificial Intelligence, Psychology, Philosophy, Stock Market, Music, and so on... I already had this book on my long list of books to be read. Luckily, someone in one of my book clubs was already reading it, and told me that she was really......more

Goodreads review by The Time Traveler on September 22, 2017

Forgettable Unfortunately the Author choose to focus on love interests more than a page turning Thriller. I also would have liked a broader timeline of events and a more encompassing world for the reader. The author limited the advancement of technology and the repercussions on society. Worth reading b......more

Goodreads review by Hazen on January 04, 2015

Artificial Intelligence or The Singularity? Science writer and author Marc Gregorio finds himself in a unique situation, but more on that shortly. Marc tends to get wrapped up in his work, and relationships with his girlfriends suffer as a result. Three successful books and three lost relationships l......more