Icebox by Mark Bastable

by Mark Bastable

A dazzling satire on life and death, introducing a witty, incisive and original new voiceHere's the deal. Give Gabriel Todd your brain, and you'll live forever. Gabe'll freeze your head in a flask - and three hundred years from now, you'll be reborn in a new, perfect body. You will be immortal. Unity Siddorn wants in. She has her own plans to save the world - with genetically pumped tomatoes, as you ask - but she's already thirty-bloody-one years old. In actuarial terms, her life is 41.3% over. She'll do anything for more time.Suddenly, Gabe's theories are about to be put to the test - though circumstances are admittedly less than ideal. The police tend to take a professional interest in a freshly severed head. It's not something you can easily hide...

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[Saj · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is weird. And funny. When I first read it several years ago, I felt a bit ashamed...like I was not supposed to like it. Well, I'm older now and know better. A frozen head being a main interest for a group of people, most of whom are a little bit unlikable? Awesome!

[Mark]

I wrote it.