Old Twentieth

Download or read book Old Twentieth written by Joe Haldeman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-08-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity’s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days—when people’s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual reality time machines to explore the life-to-death arc that defined existence so long ago. Jacob Brewer is a virtual reality engineer, overseeing the time machine’s operation aboard the starship Aspera. But on the thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii, the eight-hundred member crew gets more reality than they expect when people entering the machine start to die.