Immortality Bytes: Digital Minds Don't Get Hungry
- Daniel Lawrence Abrams
- Fiction
- Sci-Fi, Thriller, Comedy
- January 21, 2025
In an all-too-possible, not-so-distant future dominated by AI, universal basic income, and “subtirees” living pod-bound lives of leisure, idealistic, semi-slacker hacker Stu Reigns dreams of more.
When Stu’s brilliant ex, Roxy Zhang, develops digital immortality, the world’s powerful elite scramble to secure their eternal existence. Enter Chuck Rosti, a merciless, terminally ill tycoon made more dangerous since he’s on the brink of conviction for massive fraud. His plan? Coerce Stu into helping get Roxy’s groundbreaking invention so “Feds can incarcerate my corpse.”
Caught between a sick billionaire, a Russian mob, digital mind clones, and a shrewd, devout Southern matriarch, Stu gets tangled in a twisted, high-stakes, ‘inverted heist.’
But as betrayals mount and revenge includes murder, Stu and new allies must race to save lives and seek justice in humanity’s digital immortality.
Fans of smart cyberpunk, like Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash, or sci-fi with humor, as in Andy Weir’s The Martian or John Scalzi’s Redshirts, will love Immortality Bytes.
ACCOLADES / AWARDS:
• Winner “Best Sci-Fi: Cyberpunk” — 7th Annual American Fiction Awards (2024)
• Winner “Best Science Fiction” & "Best Political Fiction" — American Writing 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.
