"The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger is a science fiction story from the 1940s about a billionaire named Harley D. Haworth who fears death and wants to live forever. Facing the end of his life, he uses his wealth to create a way to freeze himself, hoping to be brought back to life when science is advanced enough. He works with an engineer, Garibaldi Jones, and a bio-chemist, Dr. Ellsworth Stevens, to build a secret place where he and others can be frozen. When Haworth wakes up, he finds himself in a future world ruled by strict laws called the Ascension Code, which punishes people for their past mistakes. Haworth must then face the results of his earlier life, struggling against a system that forces him to suffer for his actions.
The penultimate trump
By R. C. W. (Robert C. W.) Ettinger
A rich man cheats death only to awaken to a future where his past misdeeds condemn him to a predetermined suffering.
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About the AuthorRobert Chester Wilson Ettinger was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.
Robert Chester Wilson Ettinger was an American academic, known as "the father of cryonics" because of the impact of his 1962 book The Prospect of Immortality.
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