- Fiction, Twenty-first century, Immortalism, Nanotechnology
On his death, a doctor has himself frozen in the hope science will one day reanimate him. That day arrives a century later and the novel describes the doctor's adjustment to a new world. One of his first acts is to clone his dead wife, which is now possible.
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Classical in form, grave, contemporary and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- James L. Halperin
- First published
- 1998
- Pages
- 380
- Publisher
- Del Rey, Ballantine Pub. Group
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780345421821
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