immortal by igor komkov
Immortal

By Igor Komkov

Immortal is a philosophical novella about memory, identity, and whether a life remains real when personality and even the world itself can be rewritten or erased.
Immortal
By Igor Komkov

He drove out the man; and at the east of the garden of Eden He placed the cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the way to the tree of life. — Genesis 3:24

In the year 2153, immortality is no longer a gift — it is a sentence. Ivan has lived for 7,722 years. He cannot die. He cannot destroy his own body. He cannot even remember who he was. Every few centuries, his memory is erased — and a new person wakes up in the same body, carrying the weight of thousands of forgotten lives. He has been in the Correction Clinic for 799 years. He has had 36,451 corrections. He has 49 left.

Immortals is a short dystopian novel about what happens when you take away the one thing that makes us human — the right to forget, the right to remember and the right to die.

Readers will love...

An intimate philosophical mystery about memory, identity, faith, and death; an immortal protagonist whose personality is repeatedly corrected; and a final question that no system can safely answer.

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Publisher: Indie

Perfect for fans of...

Permutation City by Greg Egan and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

Content warning: M

About the Author

Igor Komkov

He/him
Igor Komkov is an independent Russian science-fiction author based in Moscow. After more than twenty-five years working in finance, market infrastructure, compliance, and blockchain projects, he writes speculative fiction about systems and the people trapped inside them: memory, identity, freedom, moral choice, and technological immortality. Writing is his hobby and a way to leave questions and guidance for his children in the form of stories rather than lectures. His books include Cradle, Immortal, Seals and Signatures, and Before the Face.

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