In a new translation - a classic novel by the master of American fiction. “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me...” says Psalm 22, commonly read at funerals. But the elderly billionaire Johann Sebastian Bach Smith is still far from his funeral: doctors are keeping his decrepit body alive, and there is absolutely no one to entrust the management of his group of companies to. And so Smith decides to fight death itself on the last frontier - he decides to undergo a brain transplant. Who would have thought that the first suitable donor would be his own secretary, for whom he had the most tender feelings, and that the adherents of metempsychosis were not so wrong... Even such a freethinker and troublemaker as Heinlein. “Everyone I failed to offend with ‘Landing’ or ‘Stranger,’ I may be able to reach with this thing,” he wrote prophetically. “If you’re lucky, she will be condemned by both left-wing radicals and right-wing radicals...”