The First Immortal - Hardcover

Halperin, James L.

 
9780345420923: The First Immortal
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0345420926 ISBN 13: 9780345420923
Verlag: Del Rey, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

When physician Benjamin Smith wakes up eighty-three years in the future--in the year 2071--after a cryonic sleep, he finds that although humankind has mastered cloning and eternal youth, emotional and ethical predicaments are still prevalent

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

James L. Halperin was born in Boston, Massachusetts on October 31, 1952.  He attended Middlesex School in Concord, Massachusetts, from 1966 to 1970, and formed a rare-coin (numismatic) business, part-time, in 1968 at age 15.<br><br>He received early acceptance to Harvard College and attended from 1970 to 1971.  He took a permanent leave of absence after three semesters to pursue a full-time numismatic career.<br><br>Halperin moved to Dallas in 1982 to form a 50/50 partnership with Steve Ivy, a former rival. The company, Heritage Rare Coin Galleries, is now the world's largest and most successful numismatic company.<br><br>He has been married to Gayle Ziaks (MFA, Asst.  Professor of Dance) since 1984, and is the father of two young sons, David (born in 1991) and Michael (born in 19

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ishing first novel, James L. Halperin wrote of humanity's epoch-making achievement of truth and justice at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Now Halperin takes his luminous vision a leap further into the future as he unfolds this magnificent saga of our triumph over death itself.<br><br>At the age of sixty-three, Benjamin Smith, accomplished physician, loving father and grandfather, brilliantly original thinker, is in the prime of his life. He is too vital, too gifted, to die of the massive heart attack that overwhelms his system on a rain-soaked spring day in 1988.<br><br>But Ben Smith will not die. A pioneering advocate of the infant science of cryonics, Ben has arranged to have his body frozen until the day when humanity will possess the knowledge, the technology, and the courage to revive him.<br><br>That day arrives far more quickly--and far more strangely--than anyone could possibly imagine. For when Ben resumes life after a frozen interval of eighty-three years, the world

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Verlag
Del Rey
Erscheinungsdatum
1998
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0345420926
ISBN 13 
9780345420923
Einband
Tapa dura
Anzahl der Seiten
342
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