Robert Silverberg 3 hr 27 min read

Ex-Governor James Harker has taught himself, these six months out of office, to expect nothing unusual, the morning a discovery that can raise the dead is about to upend his quiet law practice.

Robert Silverberg's 1958 novel is a thoughtful social-SF tale of a technology that revives the recently dead and the political firestorm it ignites. Sharp, absorbing golden-age SF. Read it for a story where a washed-up politician is drawn into the world-shaking business of bringing the dead back to life.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

3 hr 27 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Bill Bowman