i will fear no evil by robert a heinlein

Xanatos Gambit: Johann admits he had no intention of surviving the transplant.Twenty Minutes Into the Future: Johann's transplant takes place in 2015.It gets more complicated late in the book. Symbiotic Possession: Between Joan and Eunice Branca, the former owner of the body.It is left ambiguous whether she is actually still there or whether Johann is hallucinating her continued existence. Posthumous Character: After Eunice Branca is killed and Johann's brain is transplanted into her body, he finds her mind still present.May-December Romance: As the protagonist has the brain of a 90-year-old man and the body of a 20-year-old woman, most of his/her relationships are arguably May December Romances in both directions.

Immortality Seeker: Johann's experiment is a way to cheat death and gain at least one extra lifetime.When he awoke to find that it had worked he had the added horror of knowing his donor and had to grieve for the young woman from inside her own body. He never expected it to work and figured he would die on the table and not have to linger as a shell of an old man on life support. Gone Horribly Right: Johann eventually admits that his idea for a brain transplant into a new, young body was really just a legal way for him to die.First Law of Gender Bending: Seeing as how his surviving the first transplant was a miracle, his situation is pretty permanent.With the body of a woman and the brain of a man, is his attraction towards women or men the gay one? Everyone Is Bisexual: As is common for Heinlein works, but it is most interesting in the case of Johann/Joan.She wore an entertaining paint job to work one day that was intended to confuse her boss as to whether it was skintight clothing or paint.Body Paint: Eunice's husband was an artist.Birth-Death Juxtaposition: Joan's final act on this earth is to give birth.AB Negative: Johann has a rare blood type, so the search for a compatible donor is tough.Tropes used in I Will Fear No Evil include:

I will fear no evil by robert a heinlein