Friends Come in Boxes
Publisher: Sphere Books
Published: February 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780722124604
Copyright date: May 1973
Other titles: Immortels en conserve (French, 1977)
First sentence: Phillip Ewell suggested it.
Description: The problem of immortality was solved in the 21st century: at forty, your brain was transferred to the head of a six month old child.  Thus you gained another forty years of active life, until you could do it all over again.

But then the birthrate fell - and a growing horde of brains waited in the Friendship Boxes for host bodies.  And on the sidelines a rebellious minority fought the system, seeking to raise their children in freedom to live a normal life.

Inevitable, the factions moved towards confrontation: a day of final reckoning.
Table of contents: label: Prologue
title: Prologue
pagenum: 7; label: 1
title: Creche
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: The Never Girl
pagenum: 42; label: 3
title: Menagerie
pagenum: 72; label: 4
title: A Woman and her Friend
pagenum: 100; label: 5
title: Charity Run
pagenum: 125; label: Epilogue
title: Epilogue
pagenum: 158