Immortal Life, Stanley Bing
Immortal Life, Stanley Bing
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Immortal Life
A Soon To Be True Story

Author: Stanley Bing

Narrator: Stanley Bing

Unabridged: 10 hr 49 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/05/2017


Synopsis

An ancient mogul has bought the power to live forever, but the strong young body he plans to inhabit has other ideas. The battle for immortal life begins in Stanley Bing’s “stimulating, satirical and perhaps even visionary novel” (Wall Street Journal).

Immortal life. A fantasy, an impossible dream—or is it? The moguls of Big Tech are pouring their mountain of wealth into finding a cure for death and they are determined to succeed.

None of these titans is richer than Arthur Vogel. The inventor, tech tycoon, and all-round monster has amassed trillions of dollars and rules over a corporate empire stretching all the way to Mars. The newest—and most expensive—life extension technology has allowed him to live to 127 years, but time is running out. His last hope to escape the inevitable lies with Gene, a human specifically created for the purpose of housing Arthur’s consciousness. The plan is to discard his aged body and come to a second life in a young, strong host. But there’s a problem: Gene. He may be artificial, but he is a person—and he has other ideas.

As Arthur sets off to achieve his goal of world domination, Gene hatches a risky plan of his own. The forces against him are rich, determined, and used to getting what they pay for. The battle between creator and creation is heightened as the two minds wrestle for control of one body.

Mixing brisk action, humor, and wicked social commentary, author Stanley Bing has crafted “an engaging and cautionary tale about the direction in which spaceship Earth is hurtling” (USA Today). Welcome to a brave new world that is too familiar for comfort—and watch the struggle for humanity play out to the bitter end.

About Stanley Bing

Stanley Bing is a bestselling fiction and nonfiction writer, and a longtime columnist for Esquire, Fortune, and many other national publications. He is the author of almost a dozen books that explore the boundaries of hard-nosed, practical business strategy and satire. These include Crazy Bosses, which, in mapping the relationship between pathology and power, predicted so much of the current political climate; What Would Machiavelli Do, which addressed why mean people often do better than nice ones; and most recently a comprehensive replacement for the traditional MBA program, The Curriculum. His three novels are Lloyd: What Happened, You Look Nice Today, and Immortal Life.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Carlos

The dumbest smartest book I have ever read . That’s it .......more

Goodreads review by Ron

Stanley Bing's zany science fiction novel "Immortal Life" sparks along the cutting edge of immortality technology. Arthur Vogel, the solar system’s wealthiest man, has no intention of going gentle into that good night. At 127, his body is mostly made up of synthetic parts around a “desiccated nugget......more

Goodreads review by Bandit

Immortality, the final frontier. Well, one of them anyway, there's also space, of course, for purists. But in this book space has been conquered, Mars renamed Musk (yikes) and technology has reached such extensive global prevalence that death remains the only thing to conquer. Until recently it's be......more

Goodreads review by Robert

My first finished book of the New Year (2018) and it is a winner! The effect of technology on our lives as individuals and the evolution of mankind. What it means to be human, what constitutes humanity and what qualifies as life. The eternal search for human immortality. These are some of the big time......more

Goodreads review by Renee

Entertaining read about what the world would (will?) look like as humans and technology become entwined in new and creepy ways, especially by the super rich. Lots of tongue-in-cheek humor, though the edginess got a little old by the end. Folks who enjoyed "Robopocalypse" would probably enjoy this (a......more