![]() ![]() I challenge you to not contemplate what you would do in the hero's place-would you fight? or bide your time? (they are only children, after all.) Would you accept the ramship computer's offer to transfer your awareness into a cloned body? Do you think you could handle sex with several dozens of people watching? Would you be upset that you are finally tricked into sex, against your will(?) This book is filled with little vignettes that I could not, and cannot forget. The search for a lost immortality procedure for adults.Ě crazy woman with super weapons and a desire for a lost youth.The real action comes when he finally returns to Earth several million years after he left it to find… Well, that's the story that's the part that has stuck in my memory to resurface repeatedly, at odd intervals, over the years: When he cuts loose and decides to visit the galaxy's core instead (and contends with a recalcitrant computer personality) we get an interesting read…but not an exciting one. This is the part where the protagonist awakens from cryogenic freezing to find his cancer cured-via a new body, and his only option for life is to pilot an interstellar ramjet to seed the stars. It's probable that the first third of the book put me to sleep. ![]() Show More really registered in my memory…but the story did. ![]()
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