TY - ABST T1 - Paradise I. A Novel Y1 - 1977 A1 - Alan Harrington (1919-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Eutopia and dystopia. Effect of the ability to bring immortality where there is not enough serum available for all and a computer selects who will become immortal plus a few who win immortality through a lottery. The period of transition is violent and confused, but the problems continue into what is expected to be the eutopia of the future in that immortality does not cure the lust for power. See also 1969 Harrington for a different take on immortality.

PB - Little, Brown CY - Boston, MA U5 -

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ER - TY - ABST T1 - The Immortalist: An Approach to the Engineering of Man's Divinity Y1 - 1969 A1 - Alan Harrington (1919-97) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

Immortality will bring eutopia. The chapter "Notes on a Utopia Beyond Time" says that in the immortalist eutopia each person will have many lives doing different things. More nonconformists. Permission required to have children. This chapter is (New York: Random House, 1969), 280-89; (London: Panther, 1973), 250-62; (London: Abacus, 1973), 275-84. See also 1977 Harrington for a different take on immortality.

PB - Random House CY - New York N1 -

UK ed. London: Panther, 1973. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1973.

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