Aris locked himself in his sub-basement, the same room where Rat 47 had taken its first synthetic breath. He held a single vial of the original solvent—a depolymerization agent he’d designed as a fail-safe. But as he raised the syringe to his own neck, the lights flickered.
Contemporary… polymer… chemistry.
Dr. Aris Thorne believed he had solved death. Not in the crude, cryogenic sense, nor the religious fiction of a soul. No, his solution was chemical, elegant, and utterly contemporary. He had created a polymer. contemporary polymer chemistry