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Lädt ... Lebensgeister-GmbHvon Robert Sheckley
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An early work by Sheckler. I believe his works get more sophisticated as time goes on. For this one, the premise and characterization is just not that believable. ( ) This humorous SF novel from 1959 is notable for its cavalier attitude to death. Of course, it makes a pretty standard case that society would naturally break down it there was no POINT to living, especially if you had set up your life insurance... :) Yes. Life insurance is actually AFTERLIFE insurance. If you can afford the process, you too can live on and get yourself a new body. Sound familiar, fans of Altered Carbon? Of course, Sheckley goes into some of the more interesting aspects of this world, including hunting parties to give yourself a proper send-off, to insurance scams, to the whole fish-out-of-water storyline so commonplace in older SF, where we also must go through our own culture shock. The novel may not be as sophisticated as many modern novels, but it IS a lightly humorous adventure, not an all-out social commentary that skewers everything it touches. And that's just fine. :) I still had a good time even if I rolled my eyes at some of the assumptions and story cliches. After all, it WAS 1959. Dames and Gents always seemed to always find those super-standard roles. lol Once again I have discovered an author that I missed in my first years of consuming SF. Some of his 1950s short stories were weak but he got better with time. I have a collection of his best short stories called "Store of the Worlds" by New York Review Books 2012. It contains some real gems. This is an interesting story with heavy ideas about revival after death. I will read any of his books that I find. It was a great audio book for gym listening. Fast paced, with a good dose of mid-20th century futuristic charm, cheesy but sweet, without too many literary descriptive adages (which work for books but not for audio books). Not sure if I would have liked it as much if I was reading it, but it served the purpose wonderfully. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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Thomas Blaine awoke in a white bed in a white room and heard someone say, "He's alive now." Then they asked him his name, age, and marital status. Yes, that seemed normal enough--but what was this talk about "death trauma"? Thus was Thomas Blaine introduced to the year 2110, when science had discovered the technique of transferring a man's consciousness from one body to another, when a man's mind could be snatched from the past, as his body was at the point of death, and brought forward into a "host body" in this fantastic future world. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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