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100 1 _aEttinger, R. C. W.
_q(Robert C. W.),
_d1918-2011
245 1 4 _aThe penultimate trump
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from Startling Stories, March 1948
500 _aRelease date is 2022-08-26
508 _aGreg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The story explores themes of mortality, technology, and the potential future of humanity through the lens of suspended animation. It revolves around the last days of the billionaire Harley D. Haworth, who, in his old age, desires to escape death by being placed in a state of suspended animation until humanity has advanced enough to revive him. The narrative follows Haworth's desperate quest to preserve his life through a revolutionary scientific project involving a new type of suspended animation. Along with Garibaldi Jones, an engineer, and Dr. Ellsworth Stevens, a bio-chemist, Haworth establishes a secret vault designed to house himself and select others for future revival. Haworth eventually awakens in a vastly changed world, where an oppressive Ascension Code mandates punishment for past wrongdoings, leading him to confront the consequences of his historical actions. As he grapples with his new reality and the suffocating moral framework of this future society, Haworth struggles against a predestined fate that condemns him to experience the suffering he previously inflicted on others. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Better Publications, Inc., 1948
653 _aScience fiction
653 _aRich people -- Fiction
653 _aCryonics -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from Startling Stories, March 1948
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68842
999 _c109646
_d109646