Defenseless Dead, The

Publication date: 
1973-01
Publication type: 
Short Story
Published: 
Ten Tomorrows, anthology, edited by Roger Elwood, paper
Opus No.: 
69
Setting: 
Known Space: Gil Hamilton
I.U.C.: 
K.S. 11 (2124-5)
Characters: 
Gil Hamilton; Luke Garner; Jackson Bera; Taffy Grimes; Anubis; Holden Chambers; Charlotte Chambers; Leviticus Hale
Summary: 

A Gil the ARM story. When the First Freezer Bill was passed, "Corpsicles" (hopefuls who had themselves frozen in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries) lacking funds or investments to support themselves were being thawed and dumped straight into the organ banks for parts. With a second Freezer bill pending, this time to dispose of those remaining Corpiscles (those with money), the Corpsicle heirs are generating much attention in the press—and from potential kidnappers.

Notes: 

"Corpsicles" and an unexpected hiding place for an organlegger

Reprints: 

Reprints Characters Notes Graphic edition: as “The Defenseless Dead, A Tale of Known Space", Adventure Comics: Malibu Graphics, February, March, April 1991.; Long Arm of Gil Hamilton, The; Playgrounds of the Mind; Best of Larry Niven, The; Flatlander