(1952- ) US numismatist, businessman and author of two sf novels of interest: The Truth Machine (1996) generates a positive read from the Invention of a fool-proof Lie Detector, though Near Future America is subjected to some turmoil; and The First Immortal (1998), a Sleeper Awakes tale in which an entire family awakens from frozen sleep (see Cryogenics) into a Utopian America where Immortality is possible. [JC]
James L Halperin
born Boston, Massachusetts: 31 October 1952
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