Mind Transfer (novel)

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Mind Transfer

First edition
Author	Janet Asimov
Cover artist	Alex Niño
Language	English
Genre	Soft science fiction, first contact, mind uploading fiction, political novel
Publisher	Walker Publishing Company (New York)
Publication date	1988
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (hardback & paperback)
Pages	312 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN	0-8027-6748-6 (Hardcover edition)
OCLC	17662265
LC Class	PZ7.A836 Mi 1988

Mind Transfer is a science fiction novel by Janet Asimov (as Janet Jeppson Asimov), published by Walker Publishing Company, Inc. in 1988. The novel journeys through the birth, life, death, and second life of a man whose family pioneers human-to-android mind transfer. It also explores the ethical and moral issues of transferring consciousness into an android at the moment of death, and examines the idea of prematurely activating an android which has not yet accepted a human brain scan.