β Scribed by Robert Sheckley
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Want to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation and hook yourself up to the Machine. There's nothing to fear. That is, if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you're not looking, and if you're not on a poltergeist hate-list . . . First published in 1959 as a startling, revolutionary novel of the future βthen pushed to new cinematic limits as the feature film adaptation Freejack in 1992β Robert Sheckley's unsettling vision of tomorrow is a trenchantly witty novel of a future where everything has improved except the bumbling human race, which just can't let itself enjoy a good thing when it finally gets it.
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