When after 243 years in cryogenic suspension, multi-billionaire, Robert de Groot awakes to a world in which immortality is his for the taking he has to decide. Does he want a life of eternal youth, that will go on indefinitely? Can he trust the beautiful immortal Yvonne or the scheming mortal, JJ Tyrone? Is this world without poverty or war really the Eden it appears to be? Something seems missing, but what? Why has mankind with all the technological advances not strived to reach the stars? With his tremendous wealth, Robert pursues these questions. He finds himself an outsider, never able to be a part of the bored, immortal elite, nor a part of the more alive, ordinary mortals.
About the Author: Anton Z. Capri was born in 1938, in Czernowitz, Romania. His parents moved to Germany in 1939 after the North Bucovina was annexed by the Soviet Union. He came to Canada in 1949, and graduated from Jarvis Collegiate Institute in Toronto, Ontario in 1957 In 1960 he married Skaidrite Kveps and graduated the following year with a B.Sc. in Engineering Physics from the University of Toronto. For two years he then worked in the Pioneering Research Department of Kimberley-Clark Corporation in Neenah, Wisconsin before continuing to pursue higher education at Princeton University where he earned a M.A. in 1965 and a Ph.D. in 1967. Returning to Canada, he accepted a position at the University of Alberta where he remained until his retirement as full professor in 1998. During his career he published more than 75 scientific papers five books and chapters in several books on physics. In addition he has published two nonfiction books, a collection of short stories, three novels and numerous poems. He also served as the director of the Theoretical Physics Institute of the University of Alberta. He spent a year as an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute für Physik und Astrophysik, Munich, Germany and was frequently invited as guest professor or research scientist to the following institutions: University of Innsbruck, Austria; University of Pisa, University of Milan, University of Trento, Italy; University of Poona, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India; Gifu University, Gifu, Japan. At present he continues his association with the University of Alberta as Professor Emeritus. He is also Adjunct Professor at Athabasca University, Alberta. Anton Z. Capri has three daughters, one granddaughter, three grandsons and two great-granddaughters and a dog. He lives with his wife, Skaidrite, in Edmonton, Alberta and travels frequently to his cottage north of Athabasca. His activities include writing, badminton, hunting, and fishing