
At the edge of a remote mountain tunnel, two researchers push the limits of neuroscience, hoping to keep a human mind alive beyond its dying body. Their clandestine lab, bathed in the glow of oscilloscopes, is obsessed with the question of when life truly begins, and whether a preserved brain could continue to think.
A sudden collapse throws Mel Carlson into a black void where he can hear his partner’s frantic voice but feels no control over his own limbs. As the experiment jolts his consciousness into a fragile digital net, he must grapple with the horror of being alive without a body and the moral cost of the desperate gamble. Listeners are drawn into the tense, claustrophobic first act as science, ambition, and identity collide.
Language
en
Duration
~40 minutes (39K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net
Release date
May 19, 2010
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
A mid-century science fiction writer whose stories imagine minds outliving bodies, machines pushing back against their makers, and strange worlds hiding unsettling truths. His surviving work has found new life through public-domain editions and audiobook recordings.
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