Suboptimal
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Last published Tue, Oct 6, 2015
At a flesh garden in downtown San Francisco, Angelica, The Lotus Petal's most sought after courtesan, becomes an unwitting party to a deception of epic proportions. Set in the near future, Suboptimal is a book about what it means to be mortal in a world where the realization of human immortality appears inevitable. The burdens of survival have been lifted from man. Energy and food are abundant, and cheap. With unlimited resources and robotic slave labor, most have abandoned the quest for the afterlife in favor of the search to extend the here and now, indefinitely.
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