num_pages: 158
description: Technical writer and volunteer fireman Charles Forrester died at age 37. But his insurance covered freezing in liquid nitrogen against the possibility of someday being thawed repaired and returned to life. Which is how he woke up in 2527 with a quarter of a million dollars coming to him from the same insurance policy. Not that he was richhe was quickly informed that two million was a bare subsistence income. He needed a job and quick. While looking he somehow unintentionally insulted a man who took out a license to injure or kill him attracted the attention of a woman who wanted to begin a relationship said relationship being very unlike anything Forrester had heard of in his timeand he found a job. However his employer was an alien one of a group being held captive on Earth to keep them from getting home and giving the location of Earth to a civilization which might be hostile. And that was when things really became interesting.
language: English
title: The Age of the Pussyfoot
publisher: Corgi