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Tomorrow and Tomorrow (Bantam Spectra Book)
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by Charles Sheffield (Author) (edit contributors)

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A multi-award-winning author creates a powerful portrait of the distant future, featuring a musician who tries to save his fatally ill wife in an experiment that goes terribly wrong and catapults them both into the future.

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Page one: Drake drives by his house and notices his wife's car is parked in the driveway when she should be at work.

Ana isn't the type to take a day off so he stops in and checks on her. She's not feeling well. The doctors discover her symptoms are caused by a brain disorder. There is... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Page one: Drake drives by his house and notices his wife's car is parked in the driveway when she should be at work.

Ana isn't the type to take a day off so he stops in and checks on her. She's not feeling well. The doctors discover her symptoms are caused by a brain disorder. There is no cure. Drake makes arrangements to have Ana's body cryogenically frozen when the end is near. She eventually slips into a coma and the procedure takes place as planned.

Drake tries, but cannot live without her. Certain a cure will eventually be invented in the future, Drake plans to become the first healthy human to undergo cryo-sleep. In addition to the legalities involved with committing possible suicide (who says anyone in the future will bother to wake him up?), Drake realizes he can increase his chances of resurrection if he learns as much knowledge about his field—music—in the years before the procedure. He broadens his scope and sinks himself into his studies, taking any job that makes him a popular musician.

Sure enough, Drake wins the right to enter cryostasis. He's awakened in the far future by a musician/music historian. Society is completely different than we know it, but Drake manages to adapt. The bad news is there is still no cure for Ana's disorder and Drake essentially has to serve as the historian's slave until he's paid off the debt he owes for being awakened. Drake patiently does his duty and, years later, earns his freedom back and places himself into cryo-sleep once again. He wakes up to find that humanity has changed once more.

So begins one of the most epic stories ever told. Drake is repeatedly awakened, each time to learn his unique services as a human relic are needed in one way or another. And each time he is given hope that the next time he awakens, Ana can be saved. Drake is willing to do anything—even wait millions of years—to be reunited.

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  • Drake: The main character. Drake is a professional musician, an otherwise normal guy who becomes so obsessed with curing his cryogenically frozen wife's terminal disease he will do absolutely anything to find a cure. He doesn't give up even as the centuries begin to pass and humans as we know them are no longer recognizable to him.
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  1. Charles Sheffield (Author)

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