Old Twentieth
by:
Joe Haldeman (author)
The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity’s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days—when people’s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual reality time machines to explore the...
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The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity’s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days—when people’s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual reality time machines to explore the life-to-death arc that defined existence so long ago. Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, overseeing the time machine’s operation aboard the starship Aspera. But on the thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight-hundred member crew gets more reality than they expect when people entering the machine start to die.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780441013432 (0441013430)
ASIN: 441013430
Publish date: August 2006
Publisher: Ace
Pages no: 285
Edition language: English
One of those "reality is what you make of it" science fiction novels. Rather boring for most of the story... mundane. But then you get to the end and it's absolutely mind-blowing. Everything you thought you knew turns out to be false. The ending more than makes up for a boring beginning and middle.
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