Icebox

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Here's the deal. Give Gabriel Todd your brain, and you'll live forever. Gabe'll freeze your head in a flask - and three hundred years from now, you'll be reborn in a new, perfect body. You will be immortal. Unity Siddorn wants in. She has her own plans to save the world - with genetically pumped tomatoes, as you ask - but she's already thirty-bloody-one years old. In actuarial terms, her life is 41.3% over. She'll do anything for more time.

Suddenly, Gabe's theories are about to be put to the test - though circumstances are admittedly less than ideal. The police tend to take a professional interest in a freshly severed head. It's not something you can easily hide...

Reviews

This is a pleasant combination of plot and parable, allowing us to take a back seat and watch perfectly normal people become twisted - Time Out

Confident characterisation, crisp dialogue and abundant wit - Esquire

Excellent, sharp comedy - Marie Claire

A really enjoyable, light-hearted romp - Bookseller

Author Bio

Mark Bastable is a contributor to Esquire magazine and has a regular slot on GLR, as well as writing for TV eg for the next series of Smack the Pony.