To Live Again
by Robert Silverberg
Form: Novel
Year: 1969
ID: 1185
Publication history:
- 1969: To Live Again, , 239 pp.
- 1971: To Live Again, Dell Mass market paperback, 207 pp.
- 1971: Vertice di Immortali, Cosmo Argento Nord Trade paperback, in Italian
- 1975: To Live Again, Sidgwick & Jackson Hard cover book, 231 pp.
- 1977: Science Fiction Special #22, Sidgwick & Jackson Mass market paperback
- 1977: To Live Again, Fontana Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-00-614609-0, 231 pp.
- 1978: Dubbelleven, Gradivus , ISBN 90-6317-871-9, 234 pp., in Dutch
- 1978: To Live Again, Berkley Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-425-037746, 208 pp.
- 1981: Noch einmal Leben, Moewig Mass market paperback, in German
- 1984: Revivre encore, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-01466-8, 258 pp., in French as Revivre Encore
- 1986: To Live Again, Warner Mass market paperback, ISBN 0-446-34058-8, 208 pp.
- 1987: To Live Again, Gollancz Mass market paperback, 231 pp.
- 1988: Revivre encore, Pocket Mass market paperback, ISBN 2-266-02755-7, 258 pp., in French
- 1999: To Live Again, Pulpless.com Trade paperback, ISBN 1584450185, 248 pp.
- 2000: To Live Again, Fictionwise Online
Blurb:
(from Dell 1971)
Once Paul Kaufmann had been the richest and most powerful man on Earth. Now he was the prize of a gigantic game of violence, sex and treachery played by those who wanted to follow in his footsteps.
For Paul Kaufmann was dead. His soul was stored in the Scheffing Institute, waiting for the time when it would be awarded to the person judged strong enough to use the mind and memory of Paul Kaufmann.
This was future Earth where the dead were slaves to the living — until at last a man arose to lead them in rebellion...
Other resources:
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Comments:
The cover blurb on the Dell edition is very misleading. The bit about a rebellion of the dead is not even mentioned in the book, though it might be an interesting idea.
Not one of the great works of the sixties, but I did like a little incident involving the Golden Gate Bridge on page 8:
A very nice bit of future-seeing there.The Berkley edition of 1978 contains an Introduction explaining the roundabout course this story took from initial conception in 1966, through numerous rejections by publishers in 1966 and 1967, extensive revisions in 1968, to its initial publication in 1969.