AN AUDIENCE FOR EINSTEIN by Mark Wakely
    Category:  Science Fiction
    Age Recommendation:  Grades 6+
    Release Date:  1/30/05
    Publisher:  Mundania Press
    Reviewed by:  Mechele R. Dillard
    Rating:  5 Stars


    Young Percival Marlowe was a typical science geek; elderly Professor Marlowe is a Nobel Prize-winning
    astrophysicist who needs more time to complete all of the brilliant projects he has yet to share with the world. Unable to
    find a way to retrieve his own youth, Marlowe backs the project of neurosurgeon Carl Dorning, hoping but never truly
    believing that Dorning’s revolutionary technique of transplanting memories will prove successful by the time Marlowe’s
    rapidly-approaching death arrives.

    Dorning knows that he only has one shot at transplanting Marlowe’s essence, and realizes that the Professor doesn’t
    have much time. When he meets a young homeless boy, Miguel Sanchez, all of the pieces begin to fall into place. But,
    when Marlowe finally realizes that this procedure may actually happen, he begins to question the moral implications of
    Dorning’s potential success: “You’ve wrestled with the procedures and won, but not with the long term
    consequences, Dorning. Don’t you see? If you’re successful, you might have found a unique way to create a
    new class of slaves” (p. 42).

    Mark Wakely’s first novel tackles some big issues, forcing the reader to weigh the value of the life of a genius of science
    against that of an illiterate street urchin. Is the potential value of continuing a life already proven invaluable to mankind
    worth the sacrifice of one homeless boy who doesn’t even know his own age? Or is the unique spirit Miguel brings to
    humanity more important than all of the equations and theories a second life for Professor Marlowe could offer?

    2006 EPPIE Award

    2003 Authorlink New Author Award for Science Fiction

    2002/03 Fountainhead Productions National Writing Contest Winner

    2003 Writemovies.com International Writing Competition, Finalist
An Audience for Einstein
by Mark Wakely