Mind Transfer (novel)

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Mind Transfer
Author Janet Asimov
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Soft Science Fiction,
First Contact,
Mind Transfer Fiction,
Political novel
Publisher The Walker Publishing Company (New York)
Publication date 1988
Media type Print (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages 312 pp (Hardcover edition)
ISBN ISBN 0-8027-6748-6 (Hardcover edition)

Mind Transfer is a science fiction novel by Janet Asimov (as Janet Jeppson Asimov) which 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.

Mind Transfer was written in 1988, and published by the Walker Publishing Company Inc.