Project Gutenberg 2022-08-26 Public domain in the USA. 142 Ettinger, R. C. W. (Robert C. W.) 1918 2011 Ettinger, Robert C. W. Ettinger, Robert Chester Wilson The penultimate trump $aUnited States :$bBetter Publications, Inc.,$c1948. Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Penultimate Trump" by R. C. W. Ettinger is a science fiction novel written in the late 1940s. The story explores themes of mortality, technology, and the potential future of humanity through the lens of suspended animation. It revolves around the last days of the billionaire Harley D. Haworth, who, in his old age, desires to escape death by being placed in a state of suspended animation until humanity has advanced enough to revive him. The narrative follows Haworth's desperate quest to preserve his life through a revolutionary scientific project involving a new type of suspended animation. Along with Garibaldi Jones, an engineer, and Dr. Ellsworth Stevens, a bio-chemist, Haworth establishes a secret vault designed to house himself and select others for future revival. Haworth eventually awakens in a vastly changed world, where an oppressive Ascension Code mandates punishment for past wrongdoings, leading him to confront the consequences of his historical actions. As he grapples with his new reality and the suffocating moral framework of this future society, Haworth struggles against a predestined fate that condemns him to experience the suffering he previously inflicted on others. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 20220515100631ettinger 1948 US Reading ease score: 76.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction Rich people -- Fiction Cryonics -- Fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 73696 2025-06-27T08:36:35.786958 text/html 50428 2024-10-19T00:18:19 text/html 389688 2025-06-27T08:36:39.115971 application/epub+zip 388496 2025-06-27T08:36:37.155969 application/epub+zip 233826 2025-06-27T08:36:36.309002 application/epub+zip 1184710 2025-06-27T08:36:40.521899 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1176968 2025-06-27T08:36:38.577922 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1022568 2022-09-30T23:40:34.219525 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 66243 2025-06-27T08:36:35.640949 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 46365 2024-10-19T00:18:19 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 17203 2025-06-27T08:36:40.642919 application/rdf+xml 34286 2025-06-27T08:36:36.692922 image/jpeg 5510 2025-06-27T08:36:36.501925 image/jpeg 2225056 2025-06-27T08:36:35.823939 application/octet-stream application/zip 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 en.wikipedia