FIRST IMMORTAL a Novel of the Future
THE FIRST IMMORTAL A Novel of the Future. Note: If you enjoyed The First Immortal or The Truth Machine, please consider posting a review on Amazon or purchasing copies at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345421825/ref=ase_jameslhalpe or http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345412885/ref=ase_jameslhalpe THIRTIETH DRAFT; Approximately 130,000 words Copyright 1996, James L. Halperin, 6/20/98 Address: 3500 Maple Ave, Dallas, Texas 75219 Fax 214-520-7108 e-mail: Jim@HeritageGalleries.com “There is but one evil, ignorance.” — Socrates “All that stand between us and eternal life are fear and gullibility: Dread of the unknown forges faith in the unknowable.” — Benjamin Franklin Smith 1 To my family. 2 AUTHOR’S NOTE Observant second-time readers may recognize some changes in the text, and even a few new plot twists. All such revisions are part of an obsessive quest to make The First Immortal the most severely scrutinized — and therefore scientifically accurate — novel ever written on our potential for biological immortality. In the first hard-cover edition, I offered a bounty to each reader who was first to point out any scientific or factual inaccuracies that I subsequently corrected. The bounty, a scarce Ivy Press first edition of The Truth Machine, my first novel, was enough to attract hundreds of submissions. Fortunately for me, most were duplicates, but I did wind up awarding about two dozen books. Still, I’m sure mistakes remain, so I now repeat the offer. Should you find any such errors, please send me an e-mail at jim@heritagegalleries.com, or write to me c/o Ballantine Books, 201 East 50th Street, New York, NY 10022, and include your mailing address.
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