Resurrection Inc

Kevin J. Anderson

Sinossi

In this horrifying science fiction novel, the dead walk the streets, resurrected by technology to become servants to the living. Resurrection, Inc. found a profitable way to do it: a microprocessor brain, a synthetic heart, artificial blood—and anyone with money could buy a Servant with no mind of its own, trained to obey any command. But for every Servant created, a living worker was out of a job, and suddenly the profits of Resurrection, Inc. became everyone else’s loss.  Some take to rioting in the streets, their rampages ruthlessly ended by heavily armed Enforcers, eager for the kill. Others join the ever-growing cult of Neo-Satanism, seeking Heaven in the depths of Hell.  Only one man tries to save the world. His name is Danal, and he is the last hope of the living. He is dead, but he remembers everything. “Anderson has become the literary equivalent of Quentin Tarantino.” —The Daily Rotation

Disponibile da: 26/05/2012.

Lunghezza di stampa: 350 pagine.

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