Rebirth of the Frozen Head in the Year - 2240

About the Book

This story assumes that a human head frozen cryogenically in the year 1999 will be retrieved in the year 2240 by the advanced science of the times. Furthermore, this head placed in a nourishing liquid will grow and extend all the necessary limbs and organs to complete a fully developed human being.

Mark, the main character in the story reaches the age of eighty, suffers from the debilitating pains of arthritis and begins to plan his death by seeking out the institution that freezes heads and promises to resurrect the individual hundreds of years later when the science is available.

Mark’s daughter overlooks the icing of the head in a small hospital and accompanies the body to the plane that transports her father to Arizona where the head will be severed, injected with protective fluids and placed in a vessel surrounded by cryogenic chemicals.

Forty years later, Judy, the daughter of Mark, has her head frozen and joins her father at the Alcor institution directly above his container.

After a couple hundred years when the science is successful, Mark is removed, placed inside an incubator, surrounded by a nourishing liquid, and grows each day until a complete human body develops and is ready for birth. Mark is removed from the artificial womb, placed on a stretcher and revived in the year 2240.

He quickly learns that he is a victim of an elite society controlled by a group of privileged authorities who keep most of the society in a pleasant socialistic state of minimum employment with enough food to keep them content without enjoying the luxuries reserved for the elite.  Mark objects to this planned economy and also learns that the revived bodies are being used for experimental purposes.

In a short period of time, his daughters, Judy is reborn and joins him in great jubilation. To avoid the surgical experiments used on the revivers to learn to extend life, Mark contacts the head of the medical team, Doctor Granoff, and offers to demonstrate the psychic power that Judy and he can produce.

The auditorium is fulled to capacity with elite research scientist.  Judy rises above the floor, floats around the room while the witnesses gaze upon this miracle with amazement. Doctor Granoff’s curiosity is stimulated and suggests that Mark and Judy teach him the principles behind this unique phenomenon. The doctor is eager to learn to travel instantly from the earth to other planets.  At the present time space travel is endless and takes years, at the speed of light, to reach other worlds.

For the present, Mark and Judy avoid deep surgery despite the continuous experiments on the other revivers.

Doctor Granoff is not satisfied with the progress of the psychic investigation and loses patience.  He captures Judy, opens up her head but finds nothing to help him.  Mark is enraged by the doctor's aggression and calls upon the psychic intelligence to help him. This hidden voice that only Judy can read on the wall, promises to punish the doctor for infringing upon the innocent Judy.  The intelligence directs Mark to present Doctor Grandoff with an award before the scientific community. Then Mark should call upon him for an acceptance speech.

A large scientific group is gathered for the honor. The president delivers the speech honoring the doctor who then stands before the microphone.  He accepts the medal of honor, thanks the audience and suddenly vanishes from the platform. At first the audience thinks that the doctor is displaying his magic, but his permanent disappearance puzzles the witnesses. The doctor has been removed to another world.  At some later point in time, the doctor informs Mark that he lives in another dimension.

About the Author

I graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1944 with a degree in Chemical Engineering and worked over the years for the Philadelphia Naval Base, Frankford Arsenal, contractor George Ewing, and finally Gulf Oil. After retiring, I spent most of my time playing tennis and writing books that explored the ideas that most intrigued me - evil, greed, and death. I have completed eleven so far. My next creation – “Love Me or Die” is the tale of an oversexed serial killer whose life is out of control. My other works include a fictional autobiography based on my own checkered life, a non-fiction chronicle of paranormal events experienced by a father and his nine-year-old daughter, and a number of novels inspired by the lives of family and close friends -including an elderly woman's losing battle with uterine cancer, and a wealthy entrepreneur who is doomed by a pathological need to spend beyond his considerable means.