The Forever Contract - Avery Sawyer
In the very near future, the country is plunged into drought and unrest. Scarce resources and constant heat are making life completely miserable. Casey doesn't think she can stand slugging back another gel pack or working one more shift at the wells. Fortunately, there's a solution: anyone over the age of seventeen can sign the Forever Contract and enter a utopian paradise. While people's minds take a permanent vacation, their bodies get warehoused and hooked up to a complex array of sensors and feeding tubes. As Casey's brother says, "You upload your consciousness to the system and you're free to live as long as you want, however you want. No more pain, no more heat, no more awful dust, no more work. Just pure thought. It's what our species has always been meant for. Suffering is for philosophers. Not for me."
Casey's ready to sign--a permanent vacation is just what she needs. There's only one problem: her boyfriend James doesn't trust it.
Would you sign the contract?
3/5 stars (liked it)
I liked the whole concept of this book and scarily enough I could see something like this really happening. However, I think it was just too short. I could see this being a book trilogy rather than a Novella. It seems like we hardly got to know the characters and everything seemed so rushed. Overall a good book though.
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