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great intro to immortality with nanotech and cryonics
This is a very basic and easy to understand book that you can read in 1-4 sittings depending on how fast you read.It is a great introduction to immortality with nanotech and cryonics for any newcomers to the field.

ok as a basic book but pretty uninspired
This is a good general introduction to cryonic and nanotech life extension, but barely touches on a lot of the issues therein. Clearly written to be a popular piece instead of a "substantial" one. TheSocratic question-and-answer format makes it seem more of a straw-manargument than one would hope. There are many better books on nanotech outthere, and though I applaud the author for trying to raise public awarenessof cryonics as legitimate science, he goes too far towards pop culture. ... Read more

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Robert Ettinger founded the cryonics (cryonic hibernation) movement in the 1960s and authored The Prospect of Immortality and Man into Superman. The ideas presented by Ettinger in these two books are examined in the present volume by living philosophers: * The Prisoner’s Dilemma, Collective Rationality, And The Prospect Of An Indefinite Prolongation Of Life (By John M. Collins)* Desirable And Undesirable Immortality: Ettinger And Arendt On Coping With Human Finitude (By Farhang Erfani)* Immortality, Death, And Our Obligations To Future Generations (By Richard V. Greene)* Time Shock And The Problem Of Anachronistic Being: An Anthropological Approach To Cryonics (By James C. Lindahl)* Caring Cryonics? (By Rita C. Manning)* Ettinger And Immortality (By Scott D. O’Reilly)* A Kantian Critique Of Cryonic Immortality (By Scott R. Stroud)* Toward A New Theory Of Personhood (By Charles Tandy)* The Anti-Death Philosophy Of N. F. Fedorov (By Charles Tandy and R. Michael Perry)* Immortality, Identity, And The Grounds Of Egoistic Concern (By Scott D. Wilson)* The Prospect Of Mortality: Buddhist And Heideggerian Critical Reflections On Ettinger (By Jason M. Wirth)In the Afterword, Ettinger responds to the evaluations and to other issues current in professional philosophy. ... Read more

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Brad Harris, a political science major, is shocked to learn that his grandfather, James, declared clinically dead twenty years ago, has been revived from cryonic suspension. Stasis is the story of religious belief versus scientific reality and cryonics gone awry. ... Read more

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cheated
The five star reviews must have been written by friends of the authors. It's the only possible explanation. Full of spelling and grammatical errors, it reads like a mediocre high school short story that never ends. The writing is clumsy and heavy handed, the characterization is preposterous. It is, however, useful for other writers as a compendium of what not to do. I normally refrain from such criticism, but I bought this book on the strength of the reviews, most of which, in hindsight, sound suspiciously like back page blurbs drafted up by the 'authors' themselves. If you've ever had unkind thoughts toward the major book selling chains for not being more supportive of self published novels, this book will give you some insight into why they may hesitate.

REAL Page Turner
Stasis is a REAL page-turner in the classic science fiction sense! I can't wait to see more from these authors!

Modern dilemma, ancient solution.
This is not your average sci-fi offering. "Stasis" is an intriguing blend of near-future techno paranoia, and ancient spiritualism. In Kelly Steed's world, science is not necessarily the cure to all the world's problems, and the solutions can be found in the most unlikely places. The classic "what if?" scenario of technology gone awry, coupled with an unusual group of protagonists make "Stasis" a good read, indeed.

Cryonics?No thank you!
James Harris lost his faith when his wife died, so after being informed that he had terminal cancer, he sought a way to immortality and had his body frozen in liquid nitrogen. After death, he discovers there is life on the other side and opts to remain even when his body is revived. His vacant flesh becomes a mortality vehicle for a remorseless childlike entity wishing to experience humanity. James' decision leaves his grandson Brad and a makeshift band of unlikely heroes to exercise the dastardly spirit and its cohorts to save the Earth from total dissolution. One of the entities escapes the lasso leaving open the possibility for future adventures from these interesting characters. Well planned out and written! I highly recommend it!

Thrilling...rivets the attention...
Alas, poor Rupert, disembowled for a sadistic's pleasure! James Harris is as fascinating and humorous as he is repulsive. An ancient being that makes a worthy adversary for a high-tech society. The detailed visual descriptions splayed across the literary canvas tantalized the senses and made me feel like I was reading a movie. Unlike some hard sci-fi, Stasis' science is written to be understandable to a general audience yet can be appreciated by professionals. I live close to an actual cryonics lab; Stasis has ensured that my nightmares will never be the same. ... Read more

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In the late 1990's, the world that Rimmer originally predicted for 2025 has yet to happen. In the meantime, although Love Me Tomorrow has been out-of-print for twenty years, it has become an underground cult novel. It's told in the first person by Christina North, a 32-year-old suicidal poet with a doctorate degree in the Sylvia Plath tradition. Christina is sexually attractive and uninhibited. A one-time porno star, she's frozen in 1976 and comes back to life in 2000, still 32-years-old with an aging husband and grown children. Her first lover, Newton Morrow, is offering a vibrantly different world.

It won't happen by 2000 but it could in 2025. In the meantime, you'll be surprised, and perhaps shocked, by Bob Rimmer's vision of a saner sexual, political, and economic world. ... Read more

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The "sequel" (sort of) to my favorite Rimmer...
...ends up being my least favorite of his books. Christina North is a porn queen who oddly enough wrote the book her movie was based on. The last meaningful love relationship she had was with a college sweetheart who wasthe son of a Louisiana televangelist--since then it's been a case of thatold country song; "Lookin' for love in all the wrong places". Shemarries a rich guy and the marriage is unfulfilling. So she tries analternative to suicide--suspended animation for 15 years. The "newera" she wakes up in isn't really much better--there's a sharpdevision between the "lecks" (intellectuals) and the"iks" (mean-spirited non or anti intellectuals some of whom arerich and some poor) . It reminds me of H.G Wells' Eloi and Morlocks from"The Time Machine" in the way it's this us-and-them scenario withneither group really admitting the other are really "people", assuch. On reflection, my reaction was the same as with the Wellsbook--"If that's the future, you can have my share of it and welcometo it". ... Read more

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Rachel and Ben are resigning themselves to a long, wet summer stuck at their uncle's house in the English countryside, until they discover the underground vault at the bottom of the garden, and the amazing secret inside - two children from the 1950s who they awaken from a sleep that's lasted for decades. 

But when Rachel and Ben "unearth" Freddy and Polly, they also uncover a mountain of questions.  What will their new friends think of the 21st century? Will they ever fit in? How will their bodies hold up after being frozen for so long? How is cryogenic freezing even possible? Why doesn't the world know about the process fifty years later? And why does it feel like they're all suddenly being followed . . . ?

In a fast-paced adventure with secret passages, missing scientists, international spies, and Whoppers (with fries), Ben and Rachel must help Freddy and Polly to find their missing father and solve the riddle of why he left them . . . frozen in time. ... Read more

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Courtesy of Teens Read Too
Ben and Rachel Carter's summer with their scientist uncle goes from dull to amazing when they discover an underground vault.Hidden in a secret room within the vault are two children, Freddy and Polly Emerson, who have been Frozen in Time.

The four children try to find out what happened to Dr. Emerson (Freddy and Polly's father), but Freddy and Polly may not live to find answers. There are people who want the past to stay buried, and the further the children delve into the past, the more their futures are in danger.

This is a fun book full of adventure and excitement. I enjoyed the blend of past and present throughout the novel. Sparkes does a great job of creating engaging characters and a believable storyline. The plot had plenty of twists and turns to keep me flipping the pages.

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Down at the Lost & Found Department in Eerie, something's missing:the Missing People!A power failure has released them from their cryogenic storage chambers, and now Jesse James, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Amelia Earhart and many more are on the loose -- and Marshall and Simon have to get them back.What's worse, some of the world's greatest political criminal minds are getting together for the crime of the century -- only the century they have in mind is over, and they'll be so mad when they find out.If the boys don't think of something fast, these crooks are going to rob a train loaded with gold bullion and escape the Lost & Found -- and Eerie -- once and for all!! ... Read more

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Good premise, but the delivery falls short.
It would have been a better story if there were more escapees, a more diverse group rather than just criminals.It seems like the boys didn't get much of a role, and Al and Lodgepoole did all of the work.The plot wasn't nearly as convolutedly awesome as it is in some of the other books in the series, and it was all just too flat and predictable.Maybe it's the switched author?I really don't know, but I miss the style of the other Eerie, Indiana books.

Funny
I thought that this book was rather a fun read. The idea that there is a special bureau that deals exclusively in losing things, is a great idea. I haven't read the first in this series, so I don't really know if this one is a lot worse, I just thought that it was an enjoyable read. I might not be worth the four-star rating I gave it, but it is definitely better then a two-star rateing, and worth at least a three.

Disappointing
After a great start ("Return To Foreverware") the second installment in this series is a bit of a letdown.Like in the previous book, "Bureau of Lost" revisits an episode of the series -Marshall and Simon meet up with Al and Lodgepool who run the Bureau of Lost(where all "missing" items - from briefcases to pencaps - arestored) - and expands it by introducing a Bureau of Missing, a seperateproject where famous people (among them are Butch Cassidy, The SundanceKid, DB Cooper and the Flying Dutchman) who have mysteriously vanished arecyrogenically frozen and stored in vaults.When these notorious felonsescape, Marshall and Simon are reluctantly called upon to help locate themand get them back where they belong.

"Bureau of Lost" readsmore like a caper from the old 60's "Batman" series, with thefour villains plotting a giant criminal scheme together, than it does likesomething from "Eerie, Indiana."Also, the purpose for theBureau of Missing never really made any sense.The Bureau of Lost, as itwas explained in the TV show, existed to keep the economy stable (if peoplenever lost anything, Lodgepool theorized, they'd never buy anything toreplace those missing items, thus causing to economy to crash) but there isno apparent reason to keep human beings frozen and stored.Overall, thisentry just seemed to be streching it. ... Read more

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A multi-award-winning author creates a powerful portrait of the distant future, featuring a musician who tries to save his fatally ill wife in an experiment that goes terribly wrong and catapults them both into the future. ... Read more

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Magnificent, epic and heartbreaking . . .
This has to be in the top 5 of my list of favorite science fiction books of all time. The story will remain with you long after the last page is turned. It asks the simple question:

What if you could live forever?

It takes the reader on a journey with one very ordinary man who just wants to live long enough to bring his wife back to life after she dies from cancer. He chooses to enter cryosleep along with her body so that someday in the future when technology is able to revive her, he will be right there to continue where their lives left off.

He gets much more than he bargained for. After several awakenings and eons of time, his questions (and his answers) undergo an incredible change. The issues in this book force the reader to ask what does it mean to be 'real'. Is death real? Is it even final? And ultimately, is love enough?

An incredible book with a great ending. You won't be sorry for picking this book up.

Fascinating at times, entertaining throughout
Drake Merlin can't save his dying wife in his own time, so he arranges for her to be cryogenically preserved until future technology can restore her to health. He decides to be preserved after he makes a terrible mistake that threatens her preserved state. He gives instructions to be awakened when she can be saved. He is awakened in the far future, but not because of her restoration. Instead, he is needed in a time when the galaxy is threatened by an alien menace, in a time when humanity has forgotten war and the need for self-preservation. His memories of those concepts are tapped for assistance. A fascinating journey across time and space ensues, with Merlin eventually losing his physical form in favor of a downloaded electronic existence aboard a ship. Much of the journey is truly fascinating, although the immensity of the timespan almost weighs down the story. Drake's quest for the restoration of his wife is almost a lost theme late in the book. Still, a very solid and memorable book from a reliable author.

Thought-provoking, Sheffield at his best!
I love this book!Currently, I'm reading it for the 4th time, which is what prompted me to write this review.I rarely read a book through twice; four times is unprecendented.In addition to a likeable main character, and a colorful supporting cast, Sheffield skillfully weaves in numerous scientific concepts regarding the nature of matter, time and space.Fortunately, the scientific concepts are developed in a manner accessible to the layman. The appendix was especially helpful, presenting a synopsis of current theory and speculation regarding the eventual fate of the universe, and providing a framework for the story.Very entertaining from cover to cover.

A mind-boggling scifi romance of epic proportions...
Charles Sheffield is a very unique author. Though in this story there is a lot of "techno jargon" and theories about space and time, the inner plot and underlying story presented in this novel are as pure and fresh as any love story, regardless of how strange the words may seem. Drake Merlin's quest to revive his beloved Ana and the sacrifice he endures to save her life, evokes an extraordinary feeling in the reader. You pass over the technological aspect and scientific descriptions and are left with the same feelings that Drake is going through. His obsession with Ana may seem to most a bit drastic, or maybe even on the verge of insanity, the way he puts away everything in his life and gives up his dreams just so he can see her face again. However, I found it touching. This is a very unique love story, in that it differs, in part, from the sterotyped love stories, and at the same time is something that everyone can enjoy. I rate "Tomorrow and Tomorrow" five stars and recommend it to anyone who is looking for something out of this world.

This book goes beyond time and science...
This book is amazing, reminding me slightly of 'Last And First Man' by Olaf Stapledon and also 'The Time Machine' by H.G. Wells.It's not just a science fiction book, but a book about the human spirit, the human soul, the human mind.Yes, it has aliens, and strange planets, and mankind's many different forms in the future, but at a certain point it goes beyond the hard science to explore our dreams and what the future may bring.Love and death, waste and power, peace and war.No matter what body we may create, no matter what mind we may think in, no matter how we evolve, we can't give up.We may give up our forms and even link our minds, but in the end we are all searching for something that only WE need and only WE can understand.Drake is after something that is special only to him.
Yes, there are a few weak ideas, like when future man turns to Drake for help, because thy don't know how to fight against an 'alien menace'.Yet I found it funny, and even refreshing, because Drake was just as useless when it came to fighting a war as they were.My only complaint is that after 387 pages the ending was also kind of weak.I wanted something more, something solid.Not a re-read, if you get my drift.Check it out of the library or get a used copy. ... Read more

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RN-turned novelist Bill Clem gives readers a chilling look at the science behind cryogenics in his sixth medical thriller. Dr. Josh Logan believes he is making the right decision when he opts to leave the university medical center for The Ford Institute, a modern, state-of-the-art medical facility in Phoenix, Arizona. Josh is eager to work alongside Lawrence Bowman, a renowned physician known for his remarkable results in neurosurgery. But his plans at Ford go awry from day one, and soon Josh is thrust into a nightmare of medical terror where no one is safe, especially Josh himself . . . ... Read more

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Not only a stinker story, but bad editing!
If after reading the horrible reviews this book has gotten and you still want to read it, then don't read my review as it may have some spoilers....

I got sucked into this novel because it was at the end of Clem's "Microbe", which wasn't that good of a story either...I figured it was cheap and might waste some of my time...WASTE INDEED...I thought maybe "Microbe" was just edited horribly, but Immortal was even worse, on top of having a stupid story.Like Microbe, it starts off written fairly well with no major errors...But then it's so spastically written you'd swear you were reading a story written by some 15 year old for his Language arts class.In fact I think 15 year olds might do a better job...there are massive plot holes in this story, you feel ripped off, like buying a used book and realizing it's missing a few pages...Clem talks about this organization, the GPO, as if the reader is supposed to know what he's talking about...Then he blurts out at the end of one chapter that it stands for Grieving parents organization...Then at the beginning of the next chapter, the bad guy of the book (who you just found out was indeed bad) says something along the lines, "Oh and GPO stands for Grieving parents association..."like Clem completely forgot he just told you...There are a lot of other redundancies as well...Like saying the character's whole name every time they are mentioned... and changing a character's name in mid sentence!!!It's almost like he decided to change the name, and then just used the "Replace" button in Word, but missed a few.There's even one sentence where he talks about the character Danny, and then says David in the next!Is it Danny or David?Not to mention I must have come across at least a half a dozen typos as well...The editor of the book must have been drunk or high while going through this book... Use the spell check for crying out loud!Maybe if the story was well developed or interesting, I could forgive the bad editing...but sigh....It's really short, I read it in just over an hour.I'm glad this book is over with and I've moved onto another which fortunately doesn't suck...

A terrible book
A very boring book that gets many of its facts wrong. Don't bother with it (and ignore the reviews giving it 5 stars, that's the result of the authors friends helping him out)

Interesting story, though it has been done before.
Cryogenics to preserve people.Private company and doctor going overboard to preserve people- mostly so one older man can have ready clones to replace hisdying organs.(Robin Cook has done this several times before.)

A good action story, but like his other books, too short.A little expansion wouild make it a better read.

The Kindle edition was well formatted with minimal typos.

Great little page turner!
This one by Clem started out a bit slow, I wasn't quite sure I was going to like it much. But, as the story developed, it became more interesting as it went along and turned into a really complex medical thriller, with an unexpected twist. There is a common Clem type protagonist with a tragic past and an uncertain future and colleague, who turns out to be someone different than you might at first suspect. His real identity was truly surprising to me, at least and I enjoyed the plot twist. Sure, it turns a bit formulaic in an action novel sense, toward the end, but there is plenty of drama and honest - to - goodness suspense to keep you turning the pages. I could hardly put it down to turn out the lamp and go to sleep. Well worth the time spent on it. It's a great story with very interesting and likeable characters, as usual for Clem.

Cyronics Gone Wild
Bill Clem writes a thriller that reads like a movie. Non-stop action. Page turning fun. He takes a subject that few us are familiar with in this story and turns it into a frightening scenario that is totally plausible. I wanted a change from Robin Cook and I'm quite happy I found Bill Clem. The book was a non-stop enjoyment from page one. This book is fantastic. The characters are well written as is the plot. There were many times while reading this book that I felt troubled and anxious just because of what Josh was going through. This book really had a hold on me. ... Read more

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Sean Harrison's life-long ambition is to travel in time. Upon reaching his fifties, the powerful CEO of Tace Technologies realizes that his time is short and that a scientific breakthrough leading to time travel capabilities may not happen in his lifetime. Along with his beloved wife Stacey, he embarks on a cryogenic journey to the future in the hopes that by freezing himself into hibernation, that it will be possible to skip through time until a point in the future where the true technology exists to travel in time: forwards and backwards.
 
The Harrisons soon run into many issues with the laws of time, both political and scientific.When Sean’s plans are leaked to the world, every country scrambles to find the answer to the time travel problem.It becomes a race against time - to control time itself.
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Enjoyable reading for a variety of people
This book is entertaining, the reader is easily pulled into the story,
Always wondering what is going to happen next.I look forward to
Sequel!

great book - realistic science
This is a great book! I read it in about 3 days which is quick considering my work schedule. The science is realistic the story line and plot great. If you like to wonder about the possibilities of time travel and how it would change the world, then you will love this book. ... Read more

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Pursuing his dream to extend life--perhaps indefinitely--through the use of artificial intelligence, computer genius Jack Messenger teams up with scientist Juliet Spring, until a series of macabre accidents befalls his family. 30,000 first printing. ... Read more

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A great read!
This book is a great examination of the next 25 years of technology in ourlives.The ideas are fascinating, and the novel is well written.Also lookup Eric Harry's books.

Very believeable... it's sacry!
It seems to me that many fictional computer books are written as if the computers were actually alive... the exact thing the main character in Host, Joe Messenger, is trying to achieve. The subject Peter James writes about is very thought provoking in an age where medical medical sciences are advancing quickly, and maybe this book isn't as outragous as one would typically be inclined to think. The elements of this novel do exist, and computer scientists in the field on AI are advancing... maybe someday this will happen... but chances are not in my lifetime. Off of the subject matter of this book- the way Peter James creates his characters is remarkable. Throughout the story I felt I had connected in some way with these characters through nothing more than Peter James' writing style. I'm going to look into more books by this author.

Fascinating novel - you won't put this one down!
HOST is an incredible novel for the intelligent reader.Peter James writes clearly and comfortably about computer science, artificial intelligence, and the so-called 'smart' drugs; and has created an exceptional thought-provoking thriller.What is Man willing to risk to advance the technology of tomorrow, especially if Life can be extended?You will contemplate this novel for a long time. ... Read more

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REX NEMORENSIS is Richard Bankowsky’s first eBook.Of his previous novels, the critics said:

A GLASS ROSE
"A brilliantly constructed first novel . . .thoroughly convincing. . . great, raw impact."from a lead review in TIME.

"Bankowsky is with one novel among our finest writers."L.A. MIRROR

AFTER PENTECOST
"A grit of reality and an ecstasy of vision . . . as remarkable and intense a novel as the season is likely to produce."N. Y. TIMES

ON A DARK NIGHT
"An ability to endow the most naturalistic of characters with mythical and heroic lineaments."N. Y. TIMES

THE PALE CRIMINALS
"A high and strongly-marked talent right on the verge of full maturity."CHICAGO TRIBUNE

THE BARBARIANS AT THE GATES
“Devastating . . . The novel is a work of revelation."KANSAS CITY STAR
“A lesson for all mankind.” NATIONAL REVIEW

In REX NEMORENSIS, we meet among others:

A former Hitler Youth and documentary filmmaker in midlife crisis mode.

His sexually insatiable mistress who dreams recurrently of lopping off the heads of “the entire filthy masculine race.”

Her genius foster son, a former Uniat monk and newly appointed head of the philanthropic arm of perhaps the most economically and politically powerful international cartel on the planet.

His comatose “sleeping beauty” bride

A famous parapsychologist and Master Hypnotist member of an antinomian messianic sect.

The most gifted psychic ever studied at Siberia’s Science City and prophesied forerunner of the Last Messiah of the End Time.

Their fates collide at the fabulous Alban Hills estate of Il Conte Nemorensis, a former Iberian vice king resurrected as a world renowned entrepreneur, philanthropist, and economic and political adviser to developing Third World nations.What follows is a shattering confrontation of materialistic and spiritual World Views, and a conspiracy to murder a Saint.

The question we’re left with at the end of Rex Nemorensis is; which is the more preposterous pipe dream--the materialistic dream of a future world wide scientific and technological transhuman Utopia, or some idealistic dream of a spiritual New Eden rising out of the ashes of a millennial Armageddon? Or will the saints and sages of this perhaps most beautiful planet in an infinite megaverse eventually teach us the way to Immortality?Or is that perhaps the most preposterous dream of all?
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Anthropologist Johan Reinhard offers the gripping tale of his discovery of a mummified Inca maiden who died five centuries ago on the summit of Ampato, a 20,700-foot-high volcano in Peru. Nearly 50 fantastic color photographs, taken by the author, reveal how the search unfolded, day by day. Maps. Timeline . ... Read more

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Short, but many great pictures
In 1990, while climbing a mountain in Peru, Anthropologist and mountain climber Dr. Johan Reinhard found something astounding: the mummy of a young Inca girl. This short work is Dr. Reinhard's story. Chocked full of color pictures, this book makes a fascinating resource for anyone who is interested in the subject.

'Nita, Lovely Inca Maid
One day a 90 pound teenager put on clothes that had been specially made, had her hair braided and the plait tip tied to her waist, ate some vegetables, and climbed up Mount Ampato. Some five centuries later, veteran mountaineers Johan Reinhard and Miguel Zarate went for a walk on that same mountain and ended up DISCOVERING THE INCA ICE MAIDEN and two other mummies of children sacrificed to directly appeal on their community's behalf to the area's gods. With its compassionate and compelling storyline eloquently presented with anthropologist/author Dr. Reinhard's own stunning photographs, the book is an unforgettable read all on its own. But it also works particularly well with Janet Buell's ANCIENT HORSEMEN OF SIBERIA, James M. Deem's BODIES FROM THE BOG and HOW TO MAKE A MUMMY TALK, David Getz's FROZEN GIRL and FROZEN MAN, and Katie Roden's THE MUMMY. ... Read more

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The October 2010 issue of Lightspeed Magazine features all types of sf, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, star-spanning hard sf, and anything and everything in between:

In our lead story this month, “Hindsight,” horror author Sarah Langan tells the story of an apocalypse-in-progress, a world in which the laws of physics no longer seem to behave properly, and a mysterious cosmic anomaly called Black Betty. The last remaining survivors have one last hope, but can the technological singularity defeat the threat of a gravitational one?

In “Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man’s Back,” author Joe R. Lansdale tells the tale of a mad scientist and his family who spend twenty long, hard years Down Under waiting for the war to end. By doing so, they manage to survive the end of the world, but when they go back Topside, they find a world very different than the one they remember—a world in which even a rose is supremely dangerous...and not just because of its thorns.

Imagine you’re awakened early from cryonic stasis aboard a starship traveling to a colony world where tens of thousands of starving colonists will die if you don’t get there to help them. John R. Fultz’s chilling “The Taste of Starlight” explores whether the lives of many outweigh the lives of few, as we experience the lengths the good Doctor Pelops is willing to go to in order to ensure his mission’s success. Would you—should you—be able to do the same thing?

There are few authors in the world about whom you can honestly say “he needs no introduction.” But when you’re talking about Stephen King, that’s most certainly the truth. “Beachworld,” one of the horror master’s rare forays into straight-up science fiction, follows the plight of the two survivors of a far-future interstellar spaceflight, who crash land on a harsh and unforgiving planet. ... Read more

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For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists. But mummies need not be ancient. Modern-day mummies can be found under glass in special tombs built in their honor, in private collections where they have come to rest after decades on the carnival circuit, in dissecting rooms of medical schools, and in the basements of funeral homes waiting for decades to be claimed by the next of kin.Stories about the famous (Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Eva Peron) and the not-so-famous (Leslie Hansell wanted her body mummified to bask in the sun rather than being buried in the cold ground) mummies are told here in great detail. The book includes a comprehensive study of the successful prolonged preservation of the human body, and delves into the law and science of modern mummification. ... Read more

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Only book of its kind
I read this book while researching a film about mummies. It is, to my knowledge, the only book of its kind. Most think of mummies as belonging exclusively to the ancients--Egyptian, Peruvian, and otherwise--but thisbook illuminates a continuing need to deny the reality of "dust todust" in our modern age. Passages on the secular communist icons thathave undergone permanent emblaming (Mao, Lenin) and on Summum Corp., acontemporary mummification facility, are very interesting. Highlyrecommended. ... Read more

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A guidebook for helping humanity to achieve its ultimate destiny of filling the universe with joy. There are 360 daily readings to help a person understand how to make the most of their life, and to also help society achieve its highest potential.The book is also a liturgy for new social movement dedicated to diversity, unity and joyful immortality. For anyone troubled by our technological times, the Truths of Terasem provides a personally meaningful and practical pathway -- a transreligion -- to happiness and purpose. ... Read more

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Brings it all together.
This booklet is mind-expanding.It is very easy to read, and yet it delves into the deepest philosophical questions of life, death and purpose.it is helpfully laid out in a who, what, where, when, why and how format.it is great reading it on kindle because there are quite a few words that made a handy dictionary a good friend.After reading the Truths of Terasem I felt a huge load of angst and anxiety lifted off my shoulders.It showed me that there IS a purpose to life, and that bodily death is not even scientifically the end of life. The booklet introduced me to the concepts of biostasis and mindfiles, both of which are related to techno-immortality.I would recommend this booklet to anyone curious, or confused, about life, death, God or love. ... Read more