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The Failed Resurrection Economy: When death becomes a business, who owns your soul? - Couverture souple

Thompson, G A

 
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Synopsis

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 Enjoy

  • Dystopian and posthuman science fiction
  • Biotech ethics and moral philosophy in fiction
  • Speculative literature in the tradition of Le Guin, Butler, Ishiguro, and Atwood
  • Stories exploring consciousness, resurrection, and identity

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