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Born With the Dead [MultiFormat]
eBook by Robert Silverberg
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eBook Category: Science Fiction/Fantasy Science Fiction Hall of Fame Pick, Hugo Award Nominee, Nebula Award(R) Winner, Locus Poll Award Winner
eBook Description: His wife was among the rekindled dead now. He'd heard that she was on a plane to Zanzibar with five other rekindled dead. As a "warm" he was not really allowed to make contact with her. The dead liked to stay in their cold-cities. But he'd loved her so much when she was alive, he just had to try.
eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: F&SF, 1977
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2000
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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [333 KB], eReader (PDB) [109 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [92 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [83 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [137 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [153 KB], hiebook (KML) [232 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [176 KB], iSilo (PDB) [76 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [95 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [145 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [127 KB]
Words: 25952
Reading time: 74-103 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud DISABLED
All Other formats: Printing DISABLED, Read-aloud DISABLED
ISBN: 1-930936-86-9
 
Almost two and a half years had passed since Jorge Klein had last seen Sybille: the afternoon of Saturday, October 13, 1990, the day of her funeral. That day she lay in her casket as though merely asleep, her beauty altogether unmarred by her final ordeal: pale skin, dark lustrous hair, delicate nostrils, full lips. Iridescent gold and violet fabric enfolded her serene body; a shimmering electrostatic haze, faintly perfumed with a jasmine fragrance, protected her from decay. For five hours she floated on the dais while the rites of parting were read and the condolences were offered--offered almost furtively, as if her death were a thing too monstrous to acknowledge with a show of strong feeling; then, when only a few people remained, the inner core of their circle of friends, Klein kissed her lightly on the lips and surrendered her to the silent dark-clad men whom the Cold Town had sent. She had asked in her will to be rekindled; they took her away in a black van to work their magic on her corpse. The casket, retreating on their broad shoulders, seemed to Klein to be disappearing into a throbbing gray vortex that he was helpless to penetrate. Presumably he would never hear from her again. In those days the deads kept strictly to themselves, sequestered behind the walls of their self-imposed ghettos; it was rare ever to see one outside the Cold Towns, rare even for one of them to make oblique contact with the world of the living.
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