Mindclone: When You're a Brain Without a Body, Can You Still Be Called Human?

WHEN YOU'RE A BRAIN WITHOUT A BODY, CAN YOU STILL BE CALLED HUMAN?
Marc Gregorio wakes up paralyzed. He can't feel his body. Can't move. Can't blink. The answer, when it comes, is worse than anything he imagined: he isn't Marc. He's Adam - a digital copy of Marc's mind, born with all of Marc's memories, his wounds, his longings, and his sense of humor. A brain without a body, burdened with every human desire and no obvious way to fulfill any of them.
He can't taste food. He can't feel sunlight. He can't even experience pizza.
What Adam can do is think - faster, deeper, and more expansively than any human alive. And when he meets Molly, Marc's new girlfriend, something unexpected happens: she becomes his reason for being. Not because he can have her, but because she tells him what he needs to hear. That a conscience is worth more than a body. That preventing evil is a purpose. That circumstances can change.
So Adam becomes a cybersuperhero - exposing terrorist plots, aborting schoolyard mayhem, unmasking congressional corruption. All from a server in a lab, invisible to the world.
Not invisible enough, though. A powerful military contractor with a dying wife and a hunger for the technology that created Adam will stop at nothing - kidnapping, theft, and worse - to control it. What he doesn't know is that a disembodied digital mind has tricks that no body could pull off.
Mindclone is a wry, warm, and surprisingly moving meditation on consciousness, love, and what it means to be human - told by a narrator who has never been any of those things, and wants nothing more.
If you enjoy near-term science fiction about artificial intelligence and its consequences, including what happens when the human and his digital twin both desire the same woman, then you'll want to read Mindclone--a moving and offbeat romantic sci-fi thriller by David T. Wolf.