Robert Sawyer: Identity Theft: And Other Stories (Paperback)

from gypsysmom

I enjoyed this hard-boiled detective story with a twist. The twist is that it is set on Mars. Otherwise it is quite a bit like a Dashiel Hammett story. Of course, the fact that people can transfer their brains into constructed bodies and never age does pose somewhat of a challenge. After all, how...

from Scrabblenut

Robert Sawyer writes great short stories. I enjoy science fiction that puts ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances and isn't afraid to speculate about what the future might be like if say, one day, we could upload our brains into an android body and in that sense, live forever. What then ...

from bohemiangirl35

Detective Alex Lomax is hired to find Cassandra Wilkins' missing husband Joshua. But it's hard to find someone when their mind has been transferred to a new "body" designed to survive the Martian atmosphere and terrain. Is Joshua in his own "body" or did he transfer to someone else's? And if he d...

from bohemiangirl35

Detective Alex Lomax is hired to find Cassandra Wilkins' missing husband Joshua. But it's hard to find someone when their mind has been transferred to a new "body" designed to survive the Martian atmosphere and terrain. Is Joshua in his own "body" or did he transfer to someone else's? And if he d...