Why Call Them Back from Heaven?

by Clifford D. Simak

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Imagine a future where cryogenics has become commonplace . . .

Imagine a future where one dominant corporation has a monopoly on the process: freezing and preserving everyone in the world, until either a cure for their disease - or for ageing itself - is discovered . . .

Imagine a future in which people work their entire lives to scrape together enough money for the corporate 'trust fund' required to maintain their frozen bodies . . .

Now, imagine that all of this is a giant scam. No one has ever been revived - and no one ever will be.

Imagine that you have unwittingly stumbled over the great lie at the heart of this future - and the corporation knows that you know . . .

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About the author

Clifford D. Simak (1904 -1988) Clifford Donald Simak was born in Wisconsin, in 1904. He attended the University of Wisconsin and spent his working life in the newspaper business. He flirted briefly with science fiction in the early '30s but did not start to write seriously until John W. Campbell's Astounding Stories began to rejuvenate the field in 1937. Simak was a regular contributor to Astounding throughout the Godlen Age, producing a body of well regarded work. He won the Nebula and multiple Hugo Awards, and in 1977 was the third writer to be named a Grand Master by SFWA. He died in 1925.

ISBN: 9780575122437

Format: eBook

Publication Date: 29/09/2011

Imprint: Gateway