Immortality Bytes - Daniel Lawrence Abrams
Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
- Daniel Lawrence Abrams
- Fiction
- Sci-Fi, Thriller, Comedy
- 04-Dec-2024
One-line Story Pitch: “When an idealistic hacker’s ex-girlfriend nears inventing digital immortality, an indicted tycoon compels him to steal it.”
“Yay, free money and a life of leisure! Except… only if you never have children. Sure, a cute little version of you (but not yet so screwed up) sounds fun. But with AI robots taking more jobs, who can reject that “bargain” hoping to afford kids someday?
Stu Reigns does. He’s an idealistic AI programmer and part-time influencer. His demisexual ex-girlfriend, Roxy Zhang, nears perfecting electronic immortality. Add in billionaire banking rascals, and there’s no more certainty — not even “Death & Taxes.”
An old-money Southerner is buying Roxy’s company. This infuriates a sick, rival oligarch — who is about to be rightfully convicted of epic fraud. To escape to this digital eternal life, he compels Stu to steal it.
You’ll never guess all the twists, but maybe the reader peering over your shoulder will.”
ACCOLADES / AWARDS:
• Winner “Best Sci-Fi: Cyberpunk” — 7th Annual American Fiction Awards (2024)• Winner “Best Science Fiction” & "Best Political Fiction" — American Writing Awards (2024)
• Triple Finalist — Best Sci-Fi, Best Humor/Satire, & Best First Novel — IAN Book of the Year Awards (2024)
• Winner “Best Humor/Satire” — Storytrade Awards (2024)
Daniel Lawrence Abrams invented a 3-D input device that earned US Patent # 5,652,603. Abrams trained in comedy writing at The Second City and The Groundlings. He performed stand-up at NYC’s Comedy Cellar and The Improv in LA. As a playwright, Abrams’s shows played at The Stella Adler Theatre, Powerhouse Theater, and the HBO/Warner Brothers Television Workspace. He wrote, produced, and directed over a hundred hours of TV, and his films and screenplays have won dozens of accolades in film festivals. Abrams gave a TEDx Talk, “Sports Can Save Politics,” at AJU. He once wrote a column for Mensa magazine, and they haven’t expelled him quite yet.
