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The Terminal Experiment

The Terminal Experiment

by Robert J. Sawyer

1995Canadian Science fictionCanadian Detective and mystery storiesScience fiction, CanadianDetective and mystery stories, Canadianaward:nebula_award=novel
4.0
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First lines

Sandra Philo probe the memories of Peter Hobson.

About this book

Dr. Peter Hobson invents a machine that detects a brain pattern that leaves the body after death, a pattern many believe is a soul. In order to test their theories on immortality and life after death, Hobson and his friend Sarkar Muhammed create three electronic simulations of Hobson's own personality. When people Hobson had a grudge against begin to die, he and Sarkar must try to find out which is responsible. But all three simulations – two modified, one a "control" – escape Sarkar's computer, into the Internet and the World Wide Web. The book won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996. Sawyer received a writer's reserve grant from the Ontario Arts Council in 1993 in support of his writing the novel. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal_Experiment">Wikipedia</a>

Themes & subjects

Canadian Science fictionCanadian Detective and mystery storiesScience fiction, CanadianDetective and mystery stories, Canadianaward:nebula_award=novelFiction, science fiction, hard science fiction
First published 1995

About the author

Robert J. Sawyer
Robert J. Sawyer

1960

Author

Robert J. Sawyer

First published

1995

Pages

333

Read time

≈ 8h

Editions

11

Languages

English, French, Hebrew

Publisher

Eos

ISBN

9782290047033

Where to buy

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Wikipedia "Writing The Terminal Experiment," by Robert J. Sawyer Internet Speculative Fiction Database Worlds Without End

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