The Unincorporated Man
by:
Dani Kollin (author)
Eytan Kollin (author)
The incredible has happened. A billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early 21st century, is discovered in the far future and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. He awakens into a civilization in which every individual is formed into a legal corporation...
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The incredible has happened. A billionaire businessman from our time, frozen in secret in the early 21st century, is discovered in the far future and resurrected, given health and a vigorous younger body. He awakens into a civilization in which every individual is formed into a legal corporation at birth, and spends many years trying to attain control over their own life by getting a majority of his or her own shares. Life extension has made life very long indeed.Justin Cord is the only unincorporated man in the world, a true stranger in this strange land. Justin survived because he is tough and smart. He cannot accept only part ownership of himself, even if that places him in conflict with a civilization that extends outside the solar system to the Oort Cloud.The Unincorporated Man is a provocative social/political/economic novel that people will be arguing about for decades.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765327246 (0765327244)
ASIN: 765327244
Publish date: April 27th 2010
Publisher: Tor Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Book Club,
American,
Adult,
Economics,
Space Opera,
Politics,
Dystopia
Series: Unincorporated Man (#1)
I have received a transmission from the future. Sadly, its contents contained no useful information, instead being a review of the movie of The Unincorporated Man. Try betting on this:The plot: A man, Justin Cord, is cryogenically frozen and thawed out 300 years in the future, when all people are in...