At one point Ross, who is healthy, threatens to put himself in cryo along with his beloved wife so as not to be left behind
Sinister scientists and cryogenic pods: one of our leading chroniclers of contemporary reality turns his attention to life after death
O ne doesn’t think of Don DeLillo as a religious writer, exactly, but there has always been an atmosphere of divination and prophecy about his work; a tendency for his plots to take their characters through successive portals of initiation, often into vaguely cultic mysteries. His prose, too, has always had a distinct bias toward the state of rapture, whether he’s observing a grungy streetscape or a desert sunrise. His last novel took its title, Point Omega, from the Jesuit thinker Teilhard de Chardin, who coined the phrase for the end-state of transcendent consciousness towards which he believed the universe was evolving. Continue Reading Zero K by Don DeLillo review – the problem of mortality