Издания и произведения

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…

Джейк Салливан обманул смерть: он скопировал своё сознание в искусственное тело и передал ему все свои личные права, а сам отправился доживать свой срок на фешенебельный курорт на обратной стороне Луны. Новому Джейку более не угрожает внезапная смерть от неизлечимой мальформации в мозгу, да и вообще мало что угрожает — его новое тело очень прочно, долговечно и поддаётся неограниченной модернизации. Однако правомерность передачи прав личности искусственной копии оспаривают в суде, да и на Луне события принимают неожиданный оборот…

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…