The Immortality Chronicles (The Future Chronicles)

What if you could live forever? Defy death itself? Even now, scientific advances in regenerative medicine, life extension, cryonics, cybernetics, and in other areas have brought humans to the brink of solving life's final conundrum. In this volume of the acclaimed Future Chronicles anthology series, twelve authors imagine that uninterrupted journey, confronting not just how, but what it means when human life can continue indefinitely, invulnerable, immortal. The Immortality Chronicles features stories by award-winning scientist and author E.E. Giorgi (Chimeras), Amazon bestselling author Will Swardstrom (Contact Window) and ten more of today's most visionary authors in science and speculative fiction. Story Synopses / contents Foreword (Samuel Peralta) The Antares Cigar Shoppe (John Gregory Hancock) Rememorations (Paul B. Kohler) The Scout (D. Robert Pease) The Control (Will Swardstrom) The Essence of Jaime�s Father (Gareth Foy) The Backup (Patricia Gilliam) Legacy (David Bruns) A Severance of Souls (Drew Avera) Room 42 (D.K. Cassidy) Eternity Today (Thomas Robins) The House on the Cliff (E.E. Giorgi) A Long Horizon (Harlow C. Fallon) A Note To Readers Review "The best place to discover new SF authors, I think, is any of the anthologies coming from Samuel Peralta" -- Hugh Howey, NY Times bestselling author of Wool About the Author Created by award-winning author Samuel Peralta, and edited by some of the most-respected editors in the genre, The Future Chronicles is the #1 bestselling anthology series that brings together work from visionary new voices and from the grandmasters of modern speculative fiction. Its unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes - A.I., aliens, time travel, robots, dragons, telepaths, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday - has made it one of the most acclaimed anthology series of the digital era.