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Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (Paperback)

by Clifford D. Simak (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Mandarin; New Ed edition (13 Jun 1985)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 041355600X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413556004
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,171,766 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting social commentary..., 24 May 2003
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This review is from: Why Call Them Back from Heaven (Paperback)
Simak describes a future world in which people believe that cryogenics will actually work - that one day they will be revived and able to live forever. As such they live their present life in a miserable state of constant preparation for the life they'll have after they're revived. All their assets are stored by the Forever Centre, who do the preservation.

There is no capital punishment in this world - one is simply sentenced to die without being frozen. Of course, it just may be that the cryogenics is actually fatally flawed - but the people running the Forever Centre sure wouldnt let on even if they knew...

Although I have had several very religous friends read the book, they all have missed the obvious parallels between Simak's world and Christianity. Which should tell me something I suppose.

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4.0 out of 5 stars immortality is not what it used to be, 15 May 2006
By RAMON (Santander, SPAIN) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Why Call Them Back from Heaven? (Pan science fiction) (Paperback)
This book explores the impact the lack of immortality. What if science could find the clue to immortality? What would happen to our concept of God, of religion, of trascendence, of life?
The world is ruled in practice by a giant corporation which keeps peolple preserved in cryogenic tanks. Their hope is that some day the cure for all disease will be found, and moroverm that immortality - and eternal youth will be found. The time is nearly come, but in the mean time society has nearly disappeared, changed into a mess of penny saving, hard fisted people, whose only horizon is to save for their "second life". No cinemas, no shows, no spending...
When a top executive gets by chance an internal report without knowing, a company mathematician vanishes, some other accidents happen that change his life.
This, as other Simak's novels is a provocative book, more focused on the theme than in the characters or the plot. As usual, the shadow of the Cold War, and the budding crisis of the prevailing American values are there.
Quite interesting.
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