{"product_id":"the-face-in-the-mirror-t-r-brown-9781482635829","title":"The Face in the Mirror: a transhuman identity crisis","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhat Makes You... You?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt sounds like a simple question.\u003cbr\u003eYou look down at your body and think, \"That's me.\"\u003cbr\u003eYou look in a mirror, \"That's me too.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor Todd Hershel, it's not that simple.\u003cbr\u003eAfter an accident left him crushed from the shoulders down, his brain on life support, he was the perfect subject for the experiment he was involved in, putting a human brain in a fully prosthetic body. The problem? All three previous patients had gone insane. Todd was the cybernetic engineer trying to fix things. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Fortunately,\" for Todd, his colleagues came up with something they hoped would save both his life and his sanity. Transplanting his brain into a brain-dead body. However, in a time when organ and even limb transplants came from lab grown cloned tissues, the list of potential donors is incredibly small. A suitable body could be grown in the lab, but that would take years. The body they had was a neo-person. A member of an animalistic slave race created to do... unpleasant work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn anthropomorphic cat person. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA body full of a soldier's reflexes and enhanced senses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOh, this new body also happened to be female. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTodd looks down at this body and can't recognize anything.\u003cbr\u003eTodd's first look in a mirror makes him faint.\u003cb\u003eCognito Ergo Sum?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI think, therefore I am.\u003cbr\u003eWill that be enough for Todd? To know that the one doing the thinking is him, even when nothing else is what it used to be.\u003cbr\u003eEven when the new body's reflexes accidentally hurt someone?\u003cbr\u003eEven when the new body's hormones make him question his gender identity?\u003cbr\u003eEven when \u003cb\u003eshe\u003c\/b\u003e starts questioning her sexual orientation? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEven when Todd is haunted by the body's previous owner? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome people aren't happy about Todd. Having a human brain in a neo-person's body affects societies views on these slave species. Will Todd's human brain save her when some of them become violent or will the ghost inside have to do it?\u003cb\u003eIf Your Brain is in a New Body, Whose Soul Do You Have?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. R. Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1482635828\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781482635829\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/13\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 442\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.29lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d","brand":"T. R. Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458726277375,"sku":"9781482635829","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7f4a5cd-9d08-47b4-84fe-1cb2aef9ad52.jpg?v=1777406234","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-face-in-the-mirror-t-r-brown-9781482635829","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}