The Terminal Experiment

Name: The Terminal Experiment
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert J. Sawyer
ISBN: 9781436121217

Author: Robert J. Sawyer

Narrator: Paul Hecht

Unabridged: 9 hr 14 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 04/18/2008

Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Robert Sawyer has won many awards for his science fiction, which is praised for its blend of high-tech mystery and suspenseful pacing. An experiment has gone terribly wrong. Dr. Peter Hobson has created three electronic simulations of his own personality. One will test life after death; another, immortality. The third one is the control unit. But now all three have escaped from Hobson's computer into the worldwide electronic matrix. And one of them is a killer.

About Robert J. Sawyer

Robert J. Sawyer has written short fiction published in numerous magazines and anthologies and has published eighteen novels. He has won forty-one national and international awards for his fiction, including the 1995 Nebula Award, the 2003 Hugo Award, and the 2006 John W. Campbell Memorial Award. He also won the Crime Writers of Canada’s Arthur Ellis Award for mystery fiction. The ABC TV series FlashForward was based on his novel of the same name.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

A murder mystery that deals with the very definition of life and death! Robert J Sawyer has never been an author to think small and he certainly didn't start in THE TERMINAL EXPERIMENT! Soul-searching (literally) provocative discussions on the nature and the very definition of death, immortality, spi......more

Goodreads review by Stuart

The Terminal Experiment: A Substandard Crichton-style thriller Originally posted at Fantasy Literature Robert J. Sawyer is a very popular Canadian SF author, with many novels under his belt and several major awards, including the 1995 Nebula Award for The Terminal Experiment, 2003 Hugo Award for Homin......more

Goodreads review by Craig

The Terminal Experiment is perhaps my favorite Sawyer novel. Published in 1995, it's a near-future (2011) story of artificial intelligence and immortality and murder and life after death wrapped up in a mystery with thought provoking and challenging speculations on religion and medical ethics and sc......more