Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog Project Gutenberg 2008-06-21 Public domain in the USA. 273 Peyton, Green 1907 1968 Wertenbaker, Green Peyton Briggs, Austin 1908 1973 The Chamber of Life Produced from Amazing Stories July 1962, a reprint from Amazing Stories October 1929. Produced by Robert Cicconetti, Annie McGuire and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net "The Chamber of Life" by Green Peyton Wertenbaker is a science fiction novel written during the late 1920s. The story explores themes of consciousness, reality, and the pursuit of artistic fulfillment through an innovative machine that allows users to experience sensations and emotions as if they were living another life. It examines the implications of such technology on human relationships and the concept of lived experience. The narrative follows a character named Barrett, who awakens in a lake with no memory of how he got there. Through a chance meeting with the intriguing inventor Melbourne, he is introduced to the "Chamber of Life," an apparatus designed to immerse users into a surreal, vivid alternate reality. As Barrett experiences this new life in a fantastical world with Selda, a woman he comes to love, he struggles with the reality that he is destined to return to his ordinary existence. The story raises profound questions on predestination, identity, and the nature of love, culminating in Barrett's poignant realization of the bittersweet truth of his experiences. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Reading ease score: 83.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 93771 2025-06-10T14:53:30.742981 text/html 91813 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 107993 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 173648 2025-06-10T14:53:35.345972 application/epub+zip 172639 2025-06-10T14:53:32.545977 application/epub+zip 97592 2025-06-10T14:53:31.369996 application/epub+zip 264388 2025-06-10T14:53:37.434924 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 254089 2025-06-10T14:53:34.659965 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 154319 2022-09-12T06:35:28.513926 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 84234 2025-06-10T14:53:30.402965 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 84051 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 32145 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 84042 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 32125 2021-01-03T18:47:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20888 2025-06-10T14:53:37.583912 application/rdf+xml 12262 2025-06-10T14:53:31.932939 image/jpeg 3403 2025-06-10T14:53:31.646965 image/jpeg 167464 2025-06-10T14:53:30.756978 application/octet-stream application/zip en.wikipedia