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Second Childhood
Second Childhood
Second Childhood
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Second Childhood

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Achieving immortality is only half of the problem. The other half is knowing how to live with it once it's been made possible—and inescapable!
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Release dateMar 10, 2016
ISBN9781682991848
Second Childhood
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Clifford D. Simak

During his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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    Second Childhood - Clifford D. Simak

    Second Childhood

    by Clifford D. Simak

    Start Publishing LLC

    Copyright © 2015 by Start Publishing LLC

    Cover image © Sudhamshu Hebbar

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    First Start Publishing eBook edition July 2015

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    ISBN 13: 978-1-68299-184-8

    You did not die.

    There was no normal way to die.

    You lived as carelessly and as recklessly as you could and you hoped that you would be lucky and be accidentally killed.

    You kept on living and you got tired of living.

    God, how tired a man can get of living! Andrew Young said.

    John Riggs, chairman of the immortality commission, cleared his throat.

    You realize, he said to Andrew Young, that this petition is a highly irregular procedure to bring to our attention.

    He picked up the sheaf of papers off the table and ruffled through them rapidly.

    There is no precedent, he added.

    I had hoped, said Andrew Young, to establish precedent.

    Commissioner Stanford said, I must admit that you have made a good case, Ancestor Young. Yet you must realize that this commission has no possible jurisdiction over the life of any person, except to see that everyone is assured of all the benefits of immortality and to work out any kinks that may show up.

    I am well aware of that, answered Young, and it seems to me that my case is one of the kinks you mention.

    He stood silently, watching the faces of the members of the board. They are afraid, he thought. Every one of them. Afraid of the day they will face the thing I am facing now. They have sought an answer and there is no answer yet except the pitifully

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