Was Amazon’s Upload TV series based on a novel? No. But… if you’re excited about Upload the TV series, and intrigued (or scared) by the concept of mind uploading, you should check out my novel of the same title, Upload.
Although not directly related (Amazon reused my title without even mentioning to me that they planned to do so), my Upload is also founded on near-future sci-fi technology to upload a human mind into a computer. Upload the novel explores the concept of mental uploading through the eyes of the first person to do it — a troubled young man with a criminal past, who plans to take advantage of his position on the Human Mind Upload Project to transfer his consciousness to a computer and escape into a digital utopia of his own creation.
“McClelland’s ambitious debut novel envisions a future in which the vanishing line between virtual reality and ‘organic life’ causes an antisocial genius to conduct the ultimate evolutionary experiment.” –Kirkus Indie
“Upload grabbed my attention early on and wouldn’t let go… I loved the way that McClelland projected some of our current problems, on a quite feasible trajectory, into the future. We can all relate to this science fiction.” –Richard Bunning, Author of Another Space in Time
“This book had me riveted from beginning to end. In Upload, Mark McClelland does what the best science fiction does. He gives the reader an intriguing world in which to consider the big questions, but doesn’t try to answer them directly. Through the main character, Raymond, we explore consciousness and conscience, identity and agency, reality and virtuality. Exquisitely well written and edited, this is a book I’ll come back to again.” – Goodreads review
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