R. C. W. Ettinger 34 min read

At ninety-two, ruthless old Wall Street warrior Harley D. Haworth wages his last and most desperate battle, against death itself, the one antagonist his money and will cannot beat. Or can they?

R. C. W. Ettinger's 1948 story is a landmark hard-SF and social-SF tale of immortality. Prescient, provocative, superbly turned. Read it for a seminal story by the future 'father of cryonics', a hard old tycoon's bid to cheat death through science, an early and influential dramatization of freezing the dying for a future resurrection.

In its time

Published in 1948, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

34 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).