TY - ABST T1 - "Sculptures of Life" Y1 - 1939 A1 - Wallace [George] West (1900-80) KW - Male author KW - US author AB -

The background to the story is a flawed utopia. In the future a technique for transferring the personality of a person into a newly created body allows some extremely rich people to live forever. While accumulating power and wealth for themselves, they build a high tech future that appears to be better but is entirely dependent on the whims of these few people.

JF - Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) VL - 24.4 N1 -

Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41.

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Merril

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