Clonedroid

In the late twenty-first century, scientists produce the first cloned human with an android brain. Regarded as the pinnacle of human achievement, he is an intelligent, sentient being, yet he is scheduled to be destroyed.

Designated Prototype 2112 and called Abe, he is a major scientific advance, but as a profitable medical product for the biotech firm MACC, his creators have become entangled in controversy. Company executives devise a lucrative plan to eliminate him in favor of a less problematic clonedroid line. Dr. Tamera Everette, the scientist who designed him, objects and is drawn into a web of deceit while trying to save him, confronting a situation with no clear winning outcome.

Abe, meanwhile, has his own vision for the future and a potential greater than anyone expects. As the clock runs down amid widespread uncertainty, he carries out plans of his own. The novel was awarded a gold medal in the 2020 Florida Authors and Publishers Association President's Book Award for adult science fiction, and a bronze medal for cover design in 2021.