
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
2010-05-19
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
A little-known American science fiction writer, he published fast-moving stories in the 1950s that still appeal to readers who enjoy big ideas and classic pulp-era imagination.
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