Science Fiction and Philosophy"What are consciousness and free will? Will artificial beings have them? Do we? And do we owe an ethical debt to future generations, even if they wear quite different bodies, or minds? These, and countless other questions first raised by a centurys worth of canonical science fiction, are now ambitiously appraised by Susan Schneider in a volume that explores our philosophical frontier. David Brin, astrophysicist and Times best selling author of The