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Author David Wolf introduces us to Mindclone: 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 serio-comic science fiction romance about the first successful mind-upload. It’s 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. Sci-Fi is my favorite genre to read and this is a great story! I love the concept of transferring the mind into a digital format as a form of immortality. It is such a Fresh in the Moment story. Since I am committed to no spoilers, I cannot tell you most of the reasons why I enjoyed the story so much. But I can talk about the writing talent of David Wolf and his skill as an author, and there is a lot of both! David explores the story from multiple angles and does a great job of keeping POV (Point Of View) very clean. I did not have a single moment of confusion about whose POV was current. David also does a great job of developing his characters, we come to know each major character very well, understanding their underlying motivations, even if we don’t like them. The balance of action, dialog, and introspection is nearly perfect. I never got anxious spending too much time in any one space. I hope to see more from this author in the future. You can buy Mindclone:
https://www.amazon.com/Mindclone https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindclone https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17676947-mindclone You can follow David: https://twitter.com/DaveWolf141 https://authordavidwolf.com [email protected] https://www.facebook.com/davidtwolfauthor www.instagram.com/wolfman141/ https://www.facebook.com/mindclone I have reviewed two short stories here: www.wordrefiner.com/book-reviews/a-disturbance-in-the-church-do-over-by-dave-t-wolf Copyright © 2017 Mark L Schultz except for the author's introduction
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I love that your review of my novel keeps showing up on X. Could you please add my website to the list you show for readers to follow me? And my email address too: [email protected]. I’d also love it if you could review my two sci-fi short stories, A Disturbance in the Church and Do-Over. And if you enjoy crime fiction, you can find four of my novels on my website. Thank you for your great review of Mindclone!!
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