Featuring an introduction by Sophie Mackintosh. A lost dystopian classic set in a future
without death. You don't own yourself any longer. Society owns you. Had it not been for
society you would not be lying here now. Bruno a young magazine editor seems to live a
charmed life until he discovers a growth on his neck - the first sign of incurable cancer. But
his doctor offers him a unique opportunity: Bruno can choose to be 'frozen down' until medical
science has found a cure for his condition. He makes his decision just after meeting and
falling in love with an enigmatic ballet dancer. Decades later he wakes up to find himself
cured but the world is now a very different place. Freezing technology is now ubiquitous the
pleasures of life have been subtly drained and society has started to fracture. Bruno must
decide what he really wants from his life and whether it's worth the cost. Fans of dystopian
fiction will love this creepingly claustrophobic classic which asks all the big questions
about ageing death scientific progress and the meaning of life.
