Immortality Inc Author:Robert Sheckley Immortality, Inc. a future where everything has improved except the bumbling human race, which just plain can't let itself enjoy a good thing when it finally gets it. Want to be IMMORTAL? It's not so hard, in 2110 AD. Just go to the Hereafter Insurance Corporation, pay your fee, and hook yourself up to The Machine... more ». There's nothing to fear. That is...if it happens to be working right, and if nobody slips another mind into your body when you're not looking, and if you're not on a poltergeist hate-list...
A man wakes up after a fatal car accident, in someone else’s body. Thomas Blaine remembered the car accident that killed him, and then he woke up in the hospital. A nurse told him where he was. You’d call it being in the future. A future where bodies are sold to the highest bidder as new homes for the minds of the rich, who are greedy for more life when their own bodies wear out or are damaged. Suddenly, keeping body and soul together has taken on a new, and very sinister, meaning.« less