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Author
Index
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Clifford
D Simak |
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Title
Index
W |
Why
Call Them Back
from Heaven? |
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| Year |
1967 |
| Publisher |
Pan
(Victor Gollancz) |
| ISBN |
330025155 |
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Synopsis
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As
the years went by,
mankind
increasingly came
to believe a
physical second
life was possible.
In the 21st
century, as
billions of frozen
bodies await
revival, their
funds are
administered by
Forever Centre,
the most powerful
institution on
earth.
But can the
Centre afford to
revive them?
Where will these
new masses
live? Why
are the Holies so
opposed to
revival?
And where is
Daniel Frost,
outcast and
fugitive, whose
chance discovery
could destroy the
Centre? |
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Review
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'Clifford
D Simak has never
written a bad
novel. Keep
a free evening for
this one. It
will hold you.'
The Sunday
Times
Why Call
Them Back from
Heaven ought
to be added to the
canon of dystopian
literature and
permitted to take
its place
alongside 1984,
Fahrenheit 451 and
Brave New World.
What sets Simak's
novel apart from
other dystopian
fiction is its
degree of
uncertainty; we
know that keeping
a populace
complacent by
means of drugs is
wrong, just as we
know that banning
all forms of
literature to keep
contradictory
points of view
from bogging down
the system is
likewise immoral.
But we are never
told whether the
claim of eventual
immortality for
all mankind is a
true or a false
one; all we are
given is the
effects that such
a claim has on
society, and we
are left to wonder
whether or not it
is true, and
whether it's worth
it even if it is
true.
Desmond Warzel |
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Credit:
NASA
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Apollo
12
Apollo
12
astronaut
Alan Bean
climbs
down the
lunar
module Intrepid,
joining
Pete
Conrad on
the
Moon
--
November
19, 1969.
The second
lunar
landing
mission,
Apollo 12
proved the
astronauts
could make
a precise
landing.
It also
gave the
crew a
chance for
a unique
rendezvous
with the
robotic
explorer
Surveyor
3, which
had been
on the
Moon since
1967.
Conrad and
Bean spent
more than
31 hours
on the
surface
before
rejoining
crewmate
Dick
Gordon
orbiting
overhead
in the
command
module Yankee
Clipper. |
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