The Failed Resurrection Economy is a speculative novel about memory, morality, and the industries built to profit from both.
In a near-future world where biotechnology has made resurrection a commercial service, the wealthy return from death while the poor sell their own futures for survival. The systems that promised renewal instead create an economy of control—where conscience, grief, and identity can be patented, leased, or revoked.
When one technician at a resurrection facility begins to question the process he helped perfect, he discovers that bringing people back doesn’t restore what made them human—it replaces it. As he moves through data archives, artificial memories, and corporate sanctuaries, he must decide whether to expose a truth no one wants to face: that the technology meant to save humanity has quietly rewritten it.
Through quiet rebellion and haunting clarity, The Failed Resurrection Economy examines how memory defines the self, how grief drives invention, and how progress without compassion collapses into tyranny.
Blending the ethical urgency of Never Let Me Go with the speculative reach of The Dispossessed and Parable of the Sower, this is not a story about science alone, but about the moral architecture beneath it.
For readers drawn to dystopian science fiction, biotech ethics, and literary speculation about the human cost of progress, The Failed Resurrection Economy offers a vision as intimate as it is unsettling. It asks one question and never lets go: when death becomes a business, what happens to the soul?
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Failed Resurrection Economy is a speculative novel about memory, morality, and the industries built to profit from both.In a near-future world where biotechnology has made resurrection a commercial service, the wealthy return from death while the poor sell their own futures for survival. The systems that promised renewal instead create an economy of control-where conscience, grief, and identity can be patented, leased, or revoked.When one technician at a resurrection facility begins to question the process he helped perfect, he discovers that bringing people back doesn't restore what made them human-it replaces it. As he moves through data archives, artificial memories, and corporate sanctuaries, he must decide whether to expose a truth no one wants to face: that the technology meant to save humanity has quietly rewritten it.Through quiet rebellion and haunting clarity, The Failed Resurrection Economy examines how memory defines the self, how grief drives invention, and how progress without compassion collapses into tyranny.Blending the ethical urgency of Never Let Me Go with the speculative reach of The Dispossessed and Parable of the Sower, this is not a story about science alone, but about the moral architecture beneath it.For readers drawn to dystopian science fiction, biotech ethics, and literary speculation about the human cost of progress, The Failed Resurrection Economy offers a vision as intimate as it is unsettling. It asks one question and never lets go: when death becomes a business, what happens to the soul?For Readers Who EnjoyDystopian and posthuman science fictionBiotech ethics and moral philosophy in fictionSpeculative literature in the tradition of Le Guin, Butler, Ishiguro, and AtwoodStories exploring consciousness, resurrection, and identity This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798270506667
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In a near-future America built on the profits of death itself, ResurrectionCorp has perfected the technology to bring the dead back-not as monsters, but as tireless workers. Officially called the Returned, these resurrected citizens sustain the global economy. Unofficially, they are slaves who have forgotten who they were.Told through intersecting perspectives-Marcus Chen, a mid-level operations manager complicit in the system; Sophie Reeves, a teenage girl whose father was resurrected against his will; and Senator Patricia Vance, a lawmaker haunted by the "acceptable losses" she once authorized-the novel traces the moral and political collapse of a society that has made death profitable.What begins as a bureaucratic horror-the corporate erasure of the word "zombie" from public language-builds into a global reckoning. As memory reasserts itself among the Returned, awakening spreads like contagion. A silent rebellion emerges: the resurrected sit and hum in unison, an act of mourning and defiance. With the world watching, the illusion of control dissolves.Dr. Sarah Chen, the scientist who began it all, exposes the truth-that consciousness cannot be erased, only suppressed-and the nation faces a choice between conscience and collapse. Protest erupts, the economy falters, and the courts must finally decide whether the Returned are property or people.In its climactic chapters, The Failed Resurrection Economy becomes both courtroom drama and elegy. Sophie records the testimonies of the awakened, preserving their stories as evidence of humanity's refusal to be forgotten. The novel ends on a fragile note of hope: truth has surfaced, but redemption remains uncertain.Blending corporate satire, moral philosophy, and emotional intimacy, this work explores how language can normalize atrocity, how love persists across death and data, and how the soul resists commodification-even when the law forbids its name This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9798270506667
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