In this mystery-science thriller, dead people are spilling government secrets, via their computer-stored consciousness! The government wants to shut everyone up, permanently, but an FBI Agent and a beautiful scientist fight to keep the dead people talking.
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Hi! This is Paul Patti, author of Dead Time, which is my third published novel.
I've been very passionate about and been researching the topic covered in Dead Time for quite some time, because I see it as one of the next, inevitable huge leaps forward in human evolution and technology, and something that will undoubtedly stir up extremely strong emotions, just like the topics of human cloning, embryonic stem cell research and genetic engineering do today.
This topic is called by the harmless sounding name of brain mapping, and in the future it will lead to the ability to download, store and display an accurate and lifelike version of a human consciousness. Brain mapping has been a very hot topic in the scientific community for quite some time.
Just recently, in the July 2007 issue of Scientific American, in an article entitled "The Memory Code - learning to read minds by understanding how the brain stores experiences," author Joe Tsien makes a prediction, when he asks that one day could we be able to "download our minds onto computers, travel to distant worlds and live forever in the network?"
The answer is "Yes!" Along with the fantastic leaps forward in computer technology, there is NO DOUBT that one day a computer WILL exist that is capable of storing the extremely complex structures, pathways, memories and intuitive thoughts of the human mind. The question becomes not IF, but WHEN.
In Dead Time, I use political intrigue to explore what might happen if because of fantastic leaps in supercomputers and understanding of brain mapping, the process takes place in the next ten or so years. Would we, as humans, be able to handle this fantastic leap forward?
The answer is, unfortunately, that we wouldn't be able to deal with all the ramifications that this fantastic development will entail.
Dead Time is my account of what happens within the first few years after a corporation named Ever Life International has perfected the technique of downloading someone's complete brain patterns and creating an ultra high-definition playback system where anyone can interact with a "Transfer" - which is what the new, computerized human consciousness is called. In Dead Time, once a person dies, their computer consciousness is activated so in a very real sense, the person will live on, forever.
What's more, this new consciousness can continue to grow, age, interact, learn, communicate and affect those on the outside, in ways that were first not well understood.
The main action of the book takes place in just one week's time, the week leading up to Thanksgiving in November 2019. We've seen that a beautiful young genetic scientist has learned some terrible truths told to her by her dead mother, who was the very first "Transfer Alpha" of the Ever Life company. Her mom had heard some very startling national secrets from her husband, a long-dead FBI Agent. And, like it says on the cover of the book, "When you're dead you tend to lose your inhibitions."
The book is part mystery, part sci-fi techno-thriller, part police procedural, documenting all the while the human emotion and disbelief over what has occurred to us in our past - and what is happening now in our present.
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In Dead Time, Patti's story revolves around the company that first starts downloading the human consciousness onto supercomputers, and what happens when some of these people, now called "Transfers," start talking to the rest of us. It seems that they've lost their inhibitions and have started revealing some astounding government secrets, and the government has begun taking the steps to shut everyone up - permanently. This brings Patti to his next question;
"Is terminating the program that's storing a human consciousness the same as ... murder?"
His main characters are an FBI Agent and the daughter of one of the "Transfers" - both of whom find themselves on the run, to save their lives AND get to the bottom of the secrets the government is hiding - and killing to protect.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
UNBELIEVABLE!!!! A MUST READ MYSTERY THRILLER.,
This review is from: Dead Time (Paperback)
YOU CAN'T STOP TURNING THE PAGES OF THIS EXCEPTIONAL, EXCITING NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE THRILLER. THE CHARACTERS SEEM TO COME ALIVE AND YOU HAVE THE FEELING OF BEING THERE WITH THEM.
PAUL PATTI'S MANY YEARS EXPERIENCE IN LAW ENFORCEMENT CERTAINLY SHOWS THROUGH IN "DEAD TIME."
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Dead Time is not your run of the mill science fiction novel. Paul has definitely created a complex science fiction mystery that is outside the norm. This read is thought provoking, edgy, and full of unusual action, suspense and neat characters. His background in police work shows with real life procedures. I highly recommend Paul's work.
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Wow..great read!,
This review is from: Dead Time (Paperback)
Set in the near future, this book describes the concept of death in a whole new light. With action, mystery, suspence, and thrill of the minute edge-of-your-seat writing, Paul has created a new genre of sci-fi mystery. A "must-read" book.
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