I Will Fear No Evil (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert A. Heinlein
- First Published: 1970
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: Approximately 2007
- Setting: Earth, then briefly the Moon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Twenty-first century, Earth, Wealth, Moon or moons, Organ donation, Brain
- Locales: Earth, Moon
The Plot
By the first decade of the twenty-first century, billionaire Johann Smith, nearly a century old, has become so sickly that he is a prisoner of the life-support technology and constant medical attention that sustain him. He tells his trusted friend and lawyer Jake Salomon, and well as his devoted young secretary Eunice Branca, that he wants to escape existence by a risky, untried method: transplanting his brain into another body.
Jake and Eunice use Johanns wealth to obtain the services of a gifted maverick surgeon and organize a pool of young people willing to...
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