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The Immortality Chronicles (The Future Chronicles Book 6) Kindle Edition
In this volume of the acclaimed ‘Future Chronicles’ anthology series, twelve authors imagine that uninterrupted journey, confronting not just how, but what it means when human life can continue indefinitely, invulnerable, immortal.
“The Immortality Chronicles” features stories by award-winning scientist and author E.E. Giorgi (Chimeras), Amazon bestselling author Will Swardstrom (Contact Window) and ten more of today's most visionary authors in science and speculative fiction.
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- Publication dateSeptember 4, 2015
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★★★★★"The best place to discover new SF authors, I think, is any of the anthologies coming from Samuel Peralta"
-- Hugh Howey, NY Times bestselling author of Wool
★★★★★
"A powerful new voice in speculative fiction"
-- Nick Webb, USA Today bestselling author of the Legacy Fleet trilogy
About the Author
Its unique take on major science fiction and fantasy themes - A.I., time travel, dragons, robots, aliens, zombies, immortality, galactic battles, cyborgs, doomsday - has made it one of the most acclaimed anthology series of the digital era.
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- Publisher : Windrift Books; 1st edition (September 4, 2015)
- Publication date : September 4, 2015
- Language : English
- File size : 433 KB
- Simultaneous device usage : Unlimited
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- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 249 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #986,810 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,884 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Kindle Store)
- #3,105 in Science Fiction Anthologies (Books)
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About the authors
D. Robert Pease is a multi-award winning author of science fiction and fantasy for both kids and adults. His works span time and space and always push the boundaries of the imagination to unexpected places.
He's a graphic designer by trade, a philosopher by calling, and a storyteller by love. When he's not writing, he travels the country by RV with his trusty Jeep in tow. The mountains and oceans whisper to him their siren song--breaking his heart if he tarries too long from their heights or shores.
D. Robert lives in the gray-skied world of Northeast Ohio with his wife and two kids.
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Samuel Peralta's work has hit the USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists, and been shortlisted for Best American Science Fiction & Fantasy. His FUTURE CHRONICLES short story anthologies were all #1 bestsellers on Amazon, as was the collection of his own work, MEMORY'S CHILDREN. His award-winning poetry has been spotlighted by the BBC and Best American Poetry.
Physicist, entrepreneur, storyteller - Sam has designed robots and nuclear tools, built solar plants, and founded companies in optoelectronics, mobile software, and artificial intelligence. He's a producer of independent film, including Golden Globe nominee THE FENCER and Emmy Award winner REAL ARTISTS. He founded the LUNAR CODEX project, archiving art, books, music, and film from over 155 countries on the Moon alongside NASA's Artemis program.
And he cooks a mean lemon shrimp risotto.
Patricia Gilliam is the author of Extinguished Worlds (time travel/superhero), The Hannaria Series (sci-fi), and Heroes of Corvus (urban fantasy/superhero). She is also a contributor to several anthologies and the creator of Seriescraft 101 character and world-building resources.
Along with many global writers, artists, musicians, and other creatives, a collection of her works will be included in three lunar time capsules (Intuitive Machine's Nova-C, Astrobotic's Peregrine, and Astrobotic's Griffin landers) through Writers on the Moon and The Lunar Codex archives in 2023.
She and her husband Cory live in Knoxville, TN with their cat, Butterscotch.
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John Gregory Hancock is a storyteller.
John Gregory Hancock is also a tall human. He has seen over sixty revolutions of his planet around its star. He has lost body parts and collected scars. He has gained and lost family, and gained family again. He knows the time left him is short, but fair. He writes down stories that come to him, in dreams or shadows, and he listens to the whispers of his characters. As a young human he wanted to achieve space. He desired to be the first human on the tiny red planet. Maybe the planet will come to him instead.
Luckily, several of his books will be shot into space to land on the moon, as part of the Writers on the Moon project, The time capsule is joining NASA payloads on Astrobotic's Peregrine Mission One, launching in late 2021 on a United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket to the Moon
Back on Earth, Hancock (as of this writing) has eleven books, novellas and short stories under his own name available on Amazon. His short stories have appeared in anthologies of others, including The Future Chronicles anthology series, whose titles have hit the overall Amazon Top 10 Bestsellers list. The Immortality Chronicles - a Top 5 SF Anthology and Hot New Release - featured his story 'The Antares Cigar Shoppe', which was also separately nominated for Best American Science Fiction award.
His written work has appeared in additional anthologies, including; Prep For Doom, Bite-Sized Offerings: Tales & Legends of the Zombie Apocalypse, Flying Toasters - The DeadPixel Tales, and Off the Kuf.
He has illustrated three children's books in partnership with Robert J. Sweeney about puppies.
Thomas is the author of the highly-rated novel Desperate to Escape. He lives with his wife, kids, two cats, and a collection of a few too many science-fiction books.
Drew Avera is a retired Navy veteran, musician, and bestselling author of The Alorian Wars. He grew up in Meridian, MS and enlisted in the Navy when he was seventeen years old. He served for twenty years as an Aviation Electrician's Mate, working primarily on the F/A-18 platform. Drew began his writing career in 2012 with The Dead Planet Series. Since then, he has published over twenty books in the dystopian, cyberpunk, military science fiction, and space opera genres... just to name a few.
The Alorian Wars (Space Opera/Military Science Fiction Series)
Broken Worlds
Deadly Refuge
Mutiny Rising
Shadow Empire
Regime Change
The Dead Planet Series (Cyberpunk/Dystopian)
Exodus
Verity
Endgame
Mech Force (With Rick Partlow) Published by Aethon Books
Hellfire
Brimstone
Apocalypse
Other books
Traitor
Skye Byrn
Damaged Incorporated
The Confederation Saga (as Dave Alexander) Published by Aethon Books
Oblivion's Dawn
Blood Lines
Artifact of the Gods
Will Swardstrom is a speculative fiction author. He has two full length novels, Dead Sleep and Dead Sight, and is at work on the finale in the trilogy.
He also has three stories in The Future Chronicles anthology series (Uncle Allen in The Alien Chronicles, Z Ball in The Z Chronicles, and The Control in The Immortality Chronicles). Each of those anthologies has charted in the Top 5 on the SF Anthology list and The Alien Chronicles reached as high as #6 on the Overall Top 100 List. The Control from The Immortality Chronicles has been nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
He also has a few stories set in Hugh Howey's WOOL Universe among his various other short stories and novellas. He lives in Southern Illinois with his wife and two kids.
David Bruns earned a Bachelor of Science in Honors English from the United States Naval Academy. (That's not a typo. He's probably the only English major you'll ever meet who took multiple semesters of calculus, physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, naval architecture, and weapons systems just so he could read some Shakespeare. It was totally worth it.)
Following six years as a US Navy submarine officer, David spent twenty years in the high-tech private sector. A graduate of the prestigious Clarion West Writers Workshop, he is the author of over twenty novels and dozens of short stories. Today, he co-writes contemporary national security thrillers with retired naval intelligence officer, J.R. Olson.
Find out more and download a free Starter Library at www.davidbruns.com.
Paul B Kohler is the International Bestselling author of the highly acclaimed novel Linear Shift. His recent work includes Turn, Detour, and Reversion, from The Humanity's Edge Trilogy, along with several short stories. His short story, Rememorations, was included in The Immortality Chronicles - The Best Anthology Of The Year as voted in the 2016 Preditors and Editors Readers Poll. Rememorations was also nominated for Best American Science Fiction.
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USA Today bestselling author D.K. Cassidy scribbles daily in various genres including Science Fiction, Magical Realism, & Urban Gothic. Her goal? Messing with your mind by transforming the voices in her head into odd stories.
D.K. Cassidy lives in the Pacific Northwest with her greatest fans: her husband Mark, twin sons Aidan and Jared, and four cats. When not writing, she loves to travel, run, knit, use the Oxford comma, and of course read!
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E.E. Giorgi grew up in Tuscany, in a house on a hill that she shared with two dogs, two cats, 5 chickens, and the occasional batches of stick insects, newts and toads her dad would bring home from the lab. Today, E.E. Giorgi is a scientist and an award winning author and photographer. She spends her days analyzing genetic data, her evenings chasing sunsets, and her nights pretending she's somebody else. Sign up for her newsletter to get a FREE story (link below).
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Harlow C. Fallon
Originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, I moved to Scotland in 1989 with my severely disabled mother. I currently live in Fife with my amazing wife and wonderful kids.
I'm the author of stories about Essence. I have been writing and publishing these stories since 2015.
A theme in my stories is that our universe doesn't work as we expect it to. While I try to conform to what we know of physics, I expect we will find some leeway in times to come.
SF gives a great opportunity to challenge people. Lifting "ordinary" people and putting them in unfamiliar places with different rules. This has long been my favourite type of story. But while the stories are classed as SF, they are human stories, and cover love, relationships, families etc.
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Some information about my stories -
"Essence" was inspired by the ending of Asimov's "The Last Question" - in my opinion one of the best SF stories written.
In some ways, Essence is what happens after that story. But since I haven't read it in decades, this is mainly based on what the story inspired in me.
The first story - The Essence of Jamie's Father, is available in Samuel Peralta's "The Immortality Chronicles" anthology. This focuses on the strained relationship between an Immortal father and his son - who like the reader, does not yet know how the universe works.
I will publish a slightly revised version of this story in due course, along with the first full length novel in the Essence Series.
This novel will cover some of the earliest days of Jamie's father in this universe.
It wasis a privilege to be part of the Future Chronicles and I am indebted to Samuel and a host of people for their help and enthusiasm.
My second story - "The Conversion of Jamie's Father", introduces Jamie's mother - Susan, and covers the End of the Universe :)
It is a little bit of a cliff hanger and doesn't explain enough for many people. As a result, I have not published any further stories, while I planned and wrote most of the series first. Hopefully, this will be less frustrating when I come to publish.
Thank you for reading this and you're welcome to visit my website https://garethfoy.weebly.com/ for more information and to join my mail list.
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Customers find the stories in this anthology well-written and enjoyable. They appreciate the variety of ideas and viewpoints presented in the book. Readers enjoy the diverse author perspectives and creativity. Overall, they consider it a great collection of different views on immortality.
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Customers enjoy the stories in this anthology. They find the stories well-written and interesting, with different takes on immortality. Readers praise the book for its high quality speculative fiction.
"I really enjoyed all the different stories, they are we ll written and they're very different that all tie back in with the idea of immortality...." Read more
"...That's where I started freaking out. Of the great stories in this collection, Foy's is the only one that addresses the utter tedium of watching the..." Read more
"This was a pretty good collection of short stories. They all felt as though they fit together, despite being very different." Read more
"...Immortality Chronicles" gave me three new names, and every story was one to remember. Highly recommended." Read more
Customers enjoy the book. They find the stories original and worth reading. The anthology keeps readers interested.
"...leading me to discover other self published authors and their fabulous work...." Read more
"...In that regard, I'm not sure how well it satisfies me, but it does entertain. Why only three stars? I think that is a fairly good review...." Read more
"...The mean was high and the variance was narrow. Every story was well worth reading, and many of them are good enough that I'll be looking for more..." Read more
"...Thanks Samuel Peralta and authors for the excellent read." Read more
Customers enjoy the anthology's content. They find it well-received and mention it's a good place to discover new authors like John Gregory Hancock and Harlow C. Fallon.
"...and one value of reading collections like this is in the discovery of some good ones: John Gregory Hancock, Harlow C Fallon, E.E Giorgi, D. Robert..." Read more
"...Well worth it, this anthology is filled with winners. Everyone will find something to enjoy here." Read more
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Customers enjoy the variety of ideas and future concepts in the book. They find it an engaging collection of viewpoints on immortality, with a good variety of stories.
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2024I really enjoyed all the different stories, they are we
ll written and they're very different that all tie back in with the idea of immortality. I highly recommend this book
- Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2016I read this book a couple of months ago and forgot to post a review. A recent promotion for the book reminded me, and I skimmed through each story again to refresh my memory. I also skimmed through some Amazon reviews, and read one stating that most of the stories are based on cloning, which isn’t real immortality. Concerned for my less-than-young memory, I skimmed the stories again and read each synopsis. Victory is mine on the memory front. Only one story is about cloning. Moving on.
Having refreshed my memory mere hours ago, I can state that this collection contains a good variety of stories. There’s more than one cyborg character, but they’re in very different tales. Something I have no trouble remembering is stories that I find to be unusual. Anything I’ve enjoyed enough to read again sticks in my mind. In this book, my favorites are Eternity Today, Room 42, and A Long Horizon. Honorable mention for The Backup, wherein there is a clone, and Rememorations, wherein the importance of memory is explored. In any anthology, there are always some stories that I don’t love. There were also a couple of those here.
Overall, I enjoyed this book and I’m pleased to recommend it. Better late than never, I say. I’d be interested in reading The Memory Chronicles, should anyone decide to write it.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 4, 2015Many of these stories focus on an individual who's rendered non-dying, but some apply the concept more broadly: D.K. Cassidy's "Room 42," and Thomas Robbins' "Eternity Today" are riffs on the entire human race's sudden conversion to undying status. E.E. Giorgi's heart-wrenching story "The House on the Cliff" tells of a man made immortal by means of his own cancer cells. "Legacy," by David Bruns, describes a driven CEO's effort to live forever by replacing himself with bionic parts over the course of centuries. "Rememorations," by Paul B. Kohler limits his protagonist's immortal status to his ability to pay for it--and his willingness to forget pieces of his past. And John Gregory Hancock's "The Antares Cigar Shoppe" stood out for the old school A.E. Van Vogt vibe that it brought to the table.
But the award for Most Unintentionally Horrifying Story About Immortality has to go to Gareth Foy, who penned “The Essence of Jaime’s Father.” This piece manages to be the most abstract yet gut-wrenching bit of work in this volume, and I'm not entirely sure how Foy pulled it off. I'm not even sure he intended to do this. All I know is that this story opened up a pit of despair in my soul that I generally only feel when engaged in Facebook discussions about religion and foreign policy.
In a nutshell, Jaime is a young man experiencing the beginning of Earth' death throes, as the sun expands to swallow the inner solar system. Science has bought the Earth a few extra thousand years, but red giants are inevitable and physics is a harsh mistress. His father, however, has an answer: convert humanity to beings of pure energy and let them wander the universe until time itself grinds to a halt. Jaime and billions of others are looking forward to this, but Jaime's father has decided not to go through with the transition. Not because he's afraid of his project's implications, but because he feels the need to stay behind to let those who fear a permanent existence know that death is still possible in that state. Eventually we learn that Jaime's old man has already done this countless times, and has lived through countless versions of the universe.
That's where I started freaking out. Of the great stories in this collection, Foy's is the only one that addresses the utter tedium of watching the universe roll out, expand, breed life, destroy life, and collapse, over and over again. Worse, every time the cycle resets, it's the same universe unrolling in the same way, right down to the people who are born (and die), and the order in which they appear and vanish back to the dust whence they came. It's like being trapped in a drive-in movie theater with the same four double-features forever. Sure, it'll take a while to memorize every line of every film, but eventually you're going to want to slit your wrists, except you can't because you're made of pure energy. (It works out in the end, but...Gah!)
- Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2015When I read Hugh Howey's WOOL a few years back, little did I know that it would be the gateway leading me to discover other self published authors and their fabulous work. The Immorality Chronicles, is the latest edition of The Future Chronicles series of anthologies. Although I have purchased the earlier volumes, I confess this is the first one I have had opportunity to read and I am happy I made the time for it. I could not have imagined when I first picked it up that there were that many amazing and unique visions of a common theme. Many of the stories have "Twilight Zone" type "gotcha" endings and I'm sure that Rod Serling, the master storyteller of TZ would be please of the work in this book. My particular favorites - "Rememorations" [Paul B Kohler], "The Control" [Will Swardstrom], "The Backup" [Patricia Gilliam] and "The Essence of Jamie's Father" {Gareth Foy]. If you haven't read any of the FC series yet, I highly recommend starting with this one. You won't be disappointed.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016This was a pretty good collection of short stories. They all felt as though they fit together, despite being very different.
- Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2023Ive read most in the anthologies in this collection and they really are great.
This collection was no different. I'll be getting the next one in the collection.
- Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016Most short story collections are hit and miss when it comes to quality. This collection is no different. The writing quality varies significantly by author, and one value of reading collections like this is in the discovery of some good ones: John Gregory Hancock, Harlow C Fallon, E.E Giorgi, D. Robert Pease, Will Swardstrom, among others. The particular subject of Immortality interested me, and I wondered how others felt about it. In that regard, I'm not sure how well it satisfies me, but it does entertain. Why only three stars? I think that is a fairly good review. In my view a five-star book is one that offers the truly extraordinary, and four stars is reserved for books that keep me a bit more enthralled, something that is hard for a collection of short stories to do. So...recommended.
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Frank BoehmerReviewed in Germany on August 29, 2021
5.0 out of 5 stars Sympathische Geschichten
nicht jede gleich gut, aber insgesamt haben sich die Autoren mit des Menschen größtem Wunsch sehr ambitioniert auseinander gesetzt. Und was nehmen wir mit? Die Unsterblichkeit ist nicht das, was unser Leben glücklicher machen würde. Die Erkenntnis ist nicht neu, Simone de Beauvoir und andere haben schon über diesen Segen, der sich am Ende als Fluch herausstellt, geschrieben und das Ergebnis ist in der Regel gleich. Dies auch an alle die High-Tech Fuzzies im Silicon Valley wie Google, Amazon, Apple, Tesla, deren Bosse sich offensichtlich gaaanz schwer tun mit der Erkenntnis, dass wir alle und sie eben auch mal abtreten müssen und uns die Unsterblichkeit als Forschungsprojekt verkaufen wollen, in das wir nur genügend Zeit und Geld investieren müssen, um die Menschheit endlich glücklich zu machen. Diese Geschichten sprechen eine andere Sprache.
Ein herzliches Dankeschön an Samuel Peralta, der mit seiner Serie future-chronicles wirklich Maßstäbe gesetzt hat und auf diese Weise auch Autoren eine Chance gibt, die sich anders sehr schwer täten, Leser zu finden. Und für das Geld sowieso ein absolutes Muss.
- Graham McCreadieReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 17, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars An interesting and eclectic take on immortality
So, what did I expect of this book? Did I get what I expected? Well, I have to say I am happy to report that all I expected was delivered, by the bucket!
I was looking for a number of different views on the impact and implications of immortality and that's exactly what I got, it was interesting to see all the different view of what immortality could look like.
I especially enjoyed Gareth Foy's first foray into writing with his well structured and interesting take on the theme, I really enjoyed reading this and can't wait to read more from him.
Well done to all of the authors.
- Kindle CustomerReviewed in the United Kingdom on April 5, 2016
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
good!
- K.J.HeritageReviewed in the United Kingdom on October 25, 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars A decadent ride through a range of inventive stories. Marvellous.
Quite simply a wonderfully decadent ride through a range of inventive stories that deliver again and and again. Loved it. Now hooked on The Future Chronicles and slowly reading my way through them. Highly recommended.
- AngeReviewed in the United Kingdom on January 11, 2016
5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended.
Not just one story, 12 thought provoking and fascinating takes on immortality...not something we consider every day, fabulous food for thought. Highly recommended.