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eBook Category: Science Fiction Nebula Award(R) Winner
eBook Description: This thought-provoking Nebula Award(R) winning story focuses on the use of science to cheat death, and the resulting implications for the nature of life and death, consciousness and identity, and the scope of immortality. The story was adapted to the screen as a Showtime Original Picture in the summer of 2001.

eBook Publisher: Rosetta Solutions, Inc., Published: 1997
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2001

53 Reader Ratings: Great Good OK Poor

Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [137 KB], eReader (PDB) [57 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [32 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [30 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [108 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [100 KB], hiebook (KML) [123 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [96 KB], iSilo (PDB) [26 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [33 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [85 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [47 KB]
Words: 9680
Reading time: 27-38 min.
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"One of the two best overall stories in the book ("A Birthday" being the other) is Bruce Holland Rogers' "Lifeboat on a Burning Sea." Combining the best elements of both the character story and the quintessential scientific extrapolation milieu, Rogers' shows how the two extremes can be artfully wed. The crux of the story deals with a highly controversial project involving synthetic consciousness, and how one man's obsession brings it to ruin for his own ends. Several timeless questions are asked, dealt with, and answered, making this a successful synthesis of style and substance. Add this one to the center pile." -Dave Truesdale, Tangent Online (Learn more about Tangent Online, the Internet's leading SF&F short fiction review website)

Deserters.

When I can't see the next step, when I can't think clearly about the hardware changes that TOS needs in order to become the repository, the ark, the salvation of my soul, I think of deserters.

I think of men on the rail of a sinking tanker. For miles around, there are no lights, only water black and icy. A lake of flame surrounds the ship. Beyond the edge of the burning oil slick, a man sits in the lifeboat looking at his comrades. The angle of the deck grows steeper. The men at the rail are waving their hands, but the one in the boat doesn't return. Instead, he puts his back into rowing, rowing away. To the men who still wave, who still hope, the flames seem to reach higher, but it's really the ship coming down to meet the burning sea.