After Mind - Hardcover

Wolf, Spencer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0986217506 ISBN 13: 9780986217500

Publisher: BentStrong Books, 2015

Synopsis

No one can ever be the same human twice.

Cessini Madden lives with an extremely rare medical condition... then his physical life ends before he reaches age thirteen. After an Artificial Intelligence breakthrough, Cessini is reborn as a young AI child named Packet. Scared and living alone in a technology center, Packet recognizes nothing from his past, save for one thing: he is deathly allergic to water. When a mysterious doctor gives him a chance to recover his memories, Packet must face the tormented boy he once was. He must be the courageous lost son his family remembers and loves. But now as his world collapses around him, his greatest challenge remains ... even a child's best memories are made to be changed. Robot or AI, no one can ever be the same human twice.

From the near-future suburbs to the lush Australian forests, from the depths of the oceans to the promise of space, Packet's urgent struggle for existence grabs hold in everyday victories and extraordinary dreams. After Mind tells a story about the underlying nature of humanity, the impact of undying devotion, and the incredible next generation of us.

---Praise for After Mind---

"A book where the characters struggle and are utterly, utterly human ... Very Clever ... After Mind leaves the reader to wonder and explore."-San Francisco Book Review | "'Technology doesn't kill the imagination of children. It lets it fly' ... A fascinating psychological and technological journey ... What makes us human? Our flesh? Our emotions? Our mind? Or, could it be the influence of imagination that sets us apart as a species?"-Readers' Favorite | "AFTER MIND is a stunning, reality-bending sci-fi adventure ... masterfully balancing the complex layers of setting and character-interiority and exteriority, past and present, vision and reality."-IndieReader | "A much needed relief from tales of massive main frames with missiles under their control. There is a lot of talk about how close we are to the "Singularity" ... The way Spencer Wolf looks at this coming breakthrough these beings will be our children. After Mind shows us what kind of fathers and mothers we should strive to become to this brave new generation."-Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite | "Spencer Wolf has created an accomplished, sensational novel that Isaac Asimov would be proud of. What begins as an interesting conceptual take on artificial intelligence quickly transforms into a heartrending journey."-K.C. Finn for Readers' Favorite

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Review:

5-STARS - "A book where the characters struggle and are utterly, utterly human ... Very Clever ... AFTER MIND leaves the reader to wonder and explore." -San Francisco Book Review "Spencer Wolf has created an accomplished, sensational novel that Isaac Asimov would be proud of. What begins as an interesting conceptual take on artificial intelligence quickly transforms into a heartrending journey. Packet is an endearing hero whom all sci-fi fans will relate to, and his fascinating psychological and technological journey is nothing short of a science fiction masterpiece. The concepts are big and exciting with plenty of incredible ideas to chew over. I'd highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates thought-provoking science fiction." -K.C. Finn, Readers' Favorite "A rewarding tesseract of a novel that doesn't release its secrets easily." -Kirkus Reviews 5-STARS - TOP BOOK PICK - "AFTER MIND is a stunning, reality-bending sci-fi adventure. An Artificial Intelligence must discover his identity in order to protect the world from an insidious threat. Wolf is an excellent sci-fi writer, masterfully balancing the complex layers of setting and character at work in the novel - interiority and exteriority, past and present, vision and reality. The story is surprisingly relatable and relevant to modern life. The plot is complex, original, and impossible to predict; everything about the story feels untrodden and immediate." -IndieReader eBook Cover Design - Gold Star Award -Joel Friedlander, TheBookDesigner.com "'Technology doesn't kill the imagination of children. It lets it fly' ... A fascinating psychological and technological journey ... What makes us human? Our flesh? Our emotions? Our mind? Or, could it be the influence of imagination that sets us apart as a species?" -Readers' Favorite "A much needed relief from tales of massive main frames with missiles under their control. There is a lot of talk about how close we are to the "Singularity" ... The way Spencer Wolf looks at this coming breakthrough these beings will be our children. After Mind shows us what kind of fathers and mothers we should strive to become to this brave new generation." -Ray Simmons for Readers' Favorite

About the Author:

Spencer Wolf is an award-winning author, having been recognized fourteen times, including twice as a semi-finalist for the Chesterfield Writer's Film Project and once as a semi-finalist for the Academy of Motion Pictures' Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting. An excerpt of his debut novel After Mind, entitled Technology Makes Two, was published in Calliope Magazine in 2014 and won third place in the magazine's 20th annual fiction contest. He holds a degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from UCLA. After Mind, his debut novel, is a hard-hitting, emotional journey through the mind of a boy reborn in the visionary world of human lies, artificial intelligence, and robot dreams. He lives in Minnesota, where he is hard at work on his next Science Fiction novel. Visit his website at www.SpencerWolf.com

About this edition

• Publisher: BentStrong Books
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0986217506
• ISBN 13: 9780986217500
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 378