Immortality, Inc. Audiobook (Free)

Desire to be immortal? You can be in AD 2110. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Company and hook yourself up to the Machine. There’s nothing to fear. That’s, if it happens to be working best, and if no one slips another mind into your body when you’re not really searching, and if you’re not really on the poltergeist hate-list…

First posted in 1959 being a startling, groundbreaking novel from the future-then pushed to brand-new cinematic limits mainly because the feature film adaptation Freejack in 1992-Robert Sheckley’s approximately Immortality, Inc. unsettling vision of tomorrow is usually a trenchantly witty novel of another where everything provides improved except the bumbling people, which just can’t let itself like a positive thing when it finally gets it.

Thomas Blaine awoke in a light bed within a white area and heard someone say, “He’s alive now.” They asked him his name, age group, and marital status. Yes, that appeared normal enough-but what was this discuss “death stress”? Therefore was Thomas Blaine presented to the entire year 2110, when technology experienced discovered the technique of transferring a man’s consciousness from one body to another, whenever a man’s brain could possibly be snatched from the past, as his body was at the idea of loss of life, and brought forward right into a “host body” in this amazing potential world. But that was only a small a part of it, for future years had proved the truth of life after loss of life and discovered worlds beyond or simultaneous with our own-worlds where, through scientific methods, a guy could live again, in another body, when he passed away here-and had along the way established the reality of ghosts, poltergeists, and zombies. What achieved it all mean? How had this breakthrough of what they called the “hereafter” shaped the globe of 2110? Thomas Blaine found himself living in a future where in fact the discoveries and techniques imagined by people of his period, though realized, were totally overwhelmed by discoveries no-one acquired ever dreamed of.