COSMOS Magazine On-line has posted the first of 56 episodes of POST MORTAL SYNDROME, an sf thriller about life- and intelligence-extension by Damien Broderick and Barbara Lamar, available for free download.

“It’s allegorical rather than scientifically exact, a sort of optimistic answer to ‘Flowers for Algernon,’ and is an attempt to reach (and entertain) a large non-specialist audience with some upbeat transhumanist ideas,” Broderick told KurzweilAI.net.

Science-fiction writer/editor Damien Broderick, an honorary senior research Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, holds a multi-disciplinary PhD from Deakin University in the comparative semiotics of science and literature and has written more than 30 books.