![]() ![]() The idea, in both cases, is that bodies and body parts will be frozen, and then suspended until technology has advanced to the stage that they can be unfrozen into immortality. ![]() ![]() We learn that there are those, such as Artis, who make this transition at or near the end of their lives, and those that go early, via the “Zero K” process. The purpose of the trip is to support his father who is there to witness his wife (and Jeffrey’s step-mother), Artis, a late stage sufferer of multiple sclerosis, “transition to the next level”. Protagonist Jeffrey Lockhart visits his billionaire father, and funder of The Convergence, at its compound in an outlying area of the Uzbekistani desert. For me, this quality, which emerges ironically from the cryopreservation story, elevates it, and may consolidate the renewed appreciation of late-period DeLillo.Ĭryogenic preservation is introduced as a technology practised by an organisation called The Convergence – part religious cult, part think tank, part advanced science centre. DeLillo’s last novel, Point Omega (2010) generated similar interest, but Zero K adds something different: an intimacy and emotional resonance that has been less prominent in earlier books. ![]()
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