Outnumbering the Dead

by Frederik Pohl

Book Overview

In a future where medical advances and lukewarm fusion have made the world immortal and prosperous, cultures and societies allow everyone freedom and satisfaction. This novella is among Pohl's best work. . . . The veteran maestro has not lost his power to chill.--The Times (London). Illustrated.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312077556
• ISBN13: 9780312077556
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Not Free SF Reader

Famous actor guy unluckily gotta die through space will fly. An actor is one of the last remaining mortals as such. Longevity treatments basically work on the rest of the population, but unfortunately not on him. This leaves him having to come to terms with the situation, as well as the people he knows and his fans. One of those novellas that gets a hardback publication that seems to be becoming popular now, whereas before they would be paperbacks. 3.5 out of 5

A good read

A soft scince fiction look at how immortality would affect us. Like any science this one isn't perfect and anomalies crop up. The part that truly captivated me was more how the background characters dealt with being immortal than than how he dealt w/ impending death. To be able to change jobs from doctor to engineer just because you want to. Or to learn the ancient greek dialect that Oedipus was originally written in because you have the time. That gave the story more depth and feeling than what it would've had.