Kirjahaku

This story is a bizarre adventure in neuroscience. It describes a small group of scientists and friends working in Oxford who, because of an accident, are forced to embrace the principle of self-experimentation. The consequences of their actions are not only unforeseen but quite unprecedented in the world of biological science - especially when they digitalise the entire conscious personality of Sydney Blumenthal, a leading member of the group. As the story unfolds it tries - I hope in an entertaining way - to explore the tantalising cross-over between computer science, genetics and medical science, together with some of the strange, legal and ethical ramifications this cross-over creates. It is this potent, fertile mixture of disciplines which, in many ways, is already defining the future of medicine. However, I have no doubt that the medical wonders which will in fact come to define the future, will far outstrip the imaginative scope of this story.

Pindi Singh MP suffers from a form of Tourette's syndrome in which he is plagued by highy random inner voices that uncontrolably break through when he is speaking. He befriends Ali and Rana (a brother and sister) whom he recruits as helpers in a forthcoming General Election. Ali, however, is kidnapped by people whose sole intention is to remove democracy from the political life of the country and to simultaneously eradicate the entire British Establishment.