Mindscan

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 this stand alone novel involving Jake Sullivan. 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. But suddenly Karen's son sues her; even worse, the original version of Jake, has taken hostages on the far side of the moon, where he is doomed to die in this feast for the mind and the heart.