The Last Christian

By David Gregory

        In the year 2008 after 34 years, Abigial Caldwell leaves the New Guinea village where she has been a Christian missionary.  She is the sole survivor of the village, whose inhabitants have all been stricken with a mysterious disease.  

She returns to America, where she finds religion has died out.  She receives a strange message from her dead grandfather, an American neuroscientist who is the inventor of a silicon brain.   He tells her to reintroduce Christianity to America regardless of the cost.  

She joins forces with the historian, Creigton Daniels, who has connections to her family.  Together they investigate the mysterious death of her grandfather.  They fight against the world's leading artificial intelligence industry, which has perfected a technique for downloading the human brain into a silicon form.  These powerful men will stop at nothing to further their goals.   

This is an intricate plot full of political intrigue and provocative religious themes.  There is a challenging issue of whether a person wants to live forever, and whether the cost is worth this.  There is a large amount of detail in medical technology.  Also there is a great deal of spiritual and evangelism teaching.  Certainly a book to stimulate discussion.