Where are the dead? What are they doing? What kind of a process is dying? What relationships exist among the dead themselves, and between the dead and those in the world they have left behind? Modern philosophers argue that the idea of disembodied survival - to which many believ…
This book studies of man's search for youth and eternal life from ancient societies to modern day cryonics.
There is a cloud-capped peak where gods and immortals while away their infinite days, and since the dawn of humanity everyone whether they know it or not has been trying to climb that mountain. But there are only four paths up its treacherous slope. Throughout history, people ha…
'Immortality' shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science.
Immortality shows how the quest to live forever has driven the development of human civilisation, and how that quest is now coming to a climax through modern science. It argues that humans are hardwired to pursue eternal life, and that the way they have done so has stayed remark…
Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.
Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she?s returned?to her old life, her family, her boyfriend?before she?s banished back to the underworld ... this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, si…
Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.
Regretting her decision to forfeit her life on Earth to become an immortal on Everneath, a world between Earth and Hell, teenaged Nikki is given the chance to return to the Surface for six months, in this story loosely based on the "Hades and Persephone" myth.
"What would you do to save the life of your child? It's a question microbiologist Richard Draman thought he'd answered when he walked away from his career to focus on curing a genetic defect that is causing his daughter to age at a wildly accelerated rate. But now he and his wif…
Mendoza, the immortal cyborg, is grown a new body and raised to consciousness. Mendoza, and the three incarnations of her not-quite-human love, Nicholas Harpole/Edward Bell-Fairfax/Alec, are all together for the first time and now they can really begin to fight back against the …
"Kage Baker's series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come, The Machine's Child. Alec Checkerfield's piratical Al, Captain Morgan, has masterminded the rescue of Mendoza the botanist. It takes a lot to kill an immortal, and they tried …
"Kage Baker's series of SF adventure continues now in a direct sequel to The Life of the World to Come, The Machine's Child. Alec Checkerfield's piratical Al, Captain Morgan, has masterminded the rescue of Mendoza the botanist. It takes a lot to kill an immortal, and they tried …