Why Call Them Back from Heaven?
| Title | Why Call Them Back from Heaven? |
| Year for Search | 1967 |
| Authors | Simak, Clifford D[onald](1904-88) |
| Date Published | 1967 |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
| Place Published | Garden City, NY |
| Keywords | Male author, US author |
| Annotation | The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money.. |
| Additional Publishers | Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967. |
| Holding Institutions | PSt |
| Author Note | (1904-88) |
| Full Text | 1967 Simak, Clifford D[onald] (1904-88). Why Call Them Back from Heaven? Garden City, NY: Doubleday. Rpt. New York: Ace Books, 1967. PSt The dystopia produced by potential immortality, which is achieved by freezing and then thawing. The society is extremely safety oriented and Puritanical. People are desperate to be able to accumulate enough wealth to be well-off in the future. The world is effectively run by the Forever Center that oversees the system, but a plot is discovered to identify the wealthiest of those frozen, not thaw them, and steal their money.. |
