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First Immortal, The

By: Del Rey Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Del Rey Books)

Last Stocked on 12/14/2015

Product Info

Title
First Immortal, The
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
James Halperin
Publish Year
1998
Pages
416
Dimensions
4x7x.8"
NKG Part #
2147417236
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

In 1988, Benjamin Franklin Smith suffers a massive coronary and is placed into cryonic suspension, igniting a storm of controversy among his suspicious relatives. In 2072, on his 147th birthday, he is reanimated by his great-grandson, rejoining a world in which such procedures--along with eugenic selection, virtual reality, and nanotechnology--have become commonplace. Ben's friends, children, grandchildren ,and mother are also given second chances in this brave new world; technology has even made it possible for Ben to have his dead wife cloned as an infant, raised by their son (also frozen and revived) to an adulthood in which she marries him again.