The Terminal Experiment

The Terminal Experiment

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name = The Terminal Experiment
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image_caption = Cover of first edition (paperback)
author = Robert J. Sawyer
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country = United States
language = English
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genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Harper Prism
release_date = May 1995
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media_type = Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
pages = 333 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-06-105310-4
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followed_by = "The Terminal Experiment" is a science fiction novel by Canadian novelist Robert J. Sawyer. The book won the 1995 Nebula Award for Best Novel, and was nominated for the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 1996.

The story was first serialised in "Analog" magazine in the mid-December 1994 to March 1995 issues, under the name "Hobson's Choice", before its first novel publication in May, 1995. A Hobson's choice is an apparently free choice that is really no choice at all. In this book it is a play on the main character's name and describes to the choice between immortality and provable life after death [http://www.sfwriter.com/essayte.htm] .

Plot introduction

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 his theories on immortality and life after death, Dr. Peter Hobson, with 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, two modified, one a "control", escape Sarkar's computer, into a worldwide electronic matrix.

Many references are made in the book to "Star Trek". At many times in the book, "Net News Digest" issues are "reprinted", similar to the news alert that many news organizations now offer.


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