The First ImmortalIn his astonishing first novel, The Truth Machine, James Halperin envisioned a future world radically changed by the invention of a totally foolproof lie detector ...and its subsequent effect on crime, justice, and privacy. Now he once again examines the extraordinary benefits -- and moral implications -- of future scientific breakthroughs in a stunning novel of the triumph over death itself.Cryonically frozen after his death, brilliant physician Benjamin Smith is restored to life eighty-three years later in the world of wonders that is the year 2071 -- where cutting-edge science, as practiced by Smith's own great-grandson, has made eternal youth, beauty, and good health universally available, and the perfection of cloning has given humanity the godlike power to re-create living beings again and again. But even as they marvel at the miracles of future science, Ben Smith and his eternal family realize that the deepest ethical and emotional dilemmas of humankind, and their own entangled lives, remain unsolved.A novel about relationships, inheritance, human nature, and the true meaning of mortality, THE FIRST IMMORTAL is a feast for thought in an age when science could soon turn speculative fiction into spectacular fact.- |
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