"Sculptures of Life"
| Title | "Sculptures of Life" |
| Year for Search | 1939 |
| Authors | West, Wallace [George](1900-80) |
| Secondary Title | Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) |
| Volume / Edition | 24.4 |
| Pagination | 71-85 |
| Date Published | December 1939 |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | 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. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41. |
| Holding Institutions | Merril |
| Author Note | (1900-80) |
| Full Text | 1939 West, Wallace [George] (1900-80). “Sculptures of Life.” Astounding Science-Fiction (New York) 24.4 (December 1939): 71-85. Rpt. in Science-Fiction Thinking Machines: Robots, Androids, Computers. Ed. Groff Conklin (New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954), 222-41. Merril 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. |
