Emortality
6 total works
NO. 4 OF 6
This is science fiction of enormous scope, filled with wonders, that expands Brian Stableford's ambitious ongoing future history series begun in Inherit the Earth and continued in Architects of Emortality and the Fountains of Youth. It is the 21st century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War III, the biotech war, is on the horizon, and the world as we know it is going to end. The fateful question is, who is going to choose what kind of future comes next, and who gets to live in this new world to come? Lisa Friedman, a forensic researcher, is attacked in her apartment. Jordan Miller, a distinguished scientist, and Lisa's former co-worker, has disappeared, taking with him a secret discovery. But what does he possess that everyone wants?
NO. 1 OF 6
In the twenty-second century, biomedical nanotechnology has given everyone in the world long life and robust health. It is the New Utopia, and all live in the expectation that true immortality will soon be realized. Damon Hart, son of the scientist responsible for much of the wonders of the new world, would rather forget his famous father and get on with his own life. But a shadowy terrorist group forces Damon to confront his heritage, launching a cat-and-mouse game that pits Damon against the terrorists, Interpol, and the powerful corporations that control the biotechnology of the future...a game Damon is ill-equipped to survive.
NO. 2 OF 6
Brian Stableford launched an ambitious future history series with "Inherit the Earth," to widespread praise. "Stableford has created in this novel a totally believable world, and wrapped it around a series of mysterious events, surprise revelations, double crosses, confused motivations, rumors, lies, plots, and counterplots. . . . Tightly controlled and suspenseful throughout," said "Science Fiction Chronicle. " "Library Journal" said, "The ethical questions posed by the prospect of conquering the aging process underscore this fast-paced SF adventure, adding depth to a story that will appeal to fans of high-tech SF and conspiracy theories." This future world is a complex society obsessed with the technology of life extension and on the brink of creating true immortals. Now, in "Architects of Emortality," Stableford gives us a story set hundreds of years in the future, filled with people who can hope for 300-year lifespans and a fortunate few whose lives will be in the thousands of years. This society is on the edge of radical change, where people have the time to develop eccentric lifestyles and personal obsessions, a world sometimes reminiscent of the distant future of Michael Moorcock's "Dancers at the End of Time" series. And there has been a series of murders that threaten the future stability of the world, murders executed by bioengineered flowers. Police officers Watson and Holmes investigate, but the central figure quickly becomes the amateur detective Oscar Wilde, a student of history who has taken on the persona of his namesake. And the question is not so much who the murderer is, but how and why. Filled with memorable characters and powerful and striking images of the richly altered world of the future, "Architects of Emortality" is a satisfying and complete story that also adds depth and detail to the evolving series.
NO. 3 OF 6
This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope and ambition, filled with wonders that expands Brian Stableford's on-going future history series. Hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality, Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he can potentially live forever. But after a traumatic natural disaster that kills millions, Gray devotes the next five hundred years of his life to the study of death and its effects on human civilization, viewed from a post-death perspective. Through it all we see the broad, large-scale accumulation of change and the growth of humanity on Earth and out to the stars as Gray experiences his boundless lifetime.
NO. 5 OF 6
DARK ARARAT is the firth novel in Brian Stableford's ambitious on-going future history series begun in INHERIT THE EARTH and continued in ARCHITECTS OF EMORTALITY, THE FOUNTAINS OF YOUTH and THE CASSANDRA COMPLES. Humanity is expanding out into the galaxy in gigantic but slow colony ships. After 700 years, one ship has reached a promising world, yet three years after arrival, only one-fifth of the passengers have been awakened. If the plant is still inhabited by the beings who left the ancient ruins of great cities, the colonists can't stay. And now someone has killed the eminent scientist who was investigating the alien ruins in search of an answer.
NO. 6 OF 6
The sixth and final novel in the Emortality series and the sequel to The Fountains of Youth, this novel is the life-history of Adam Zimmerman, developer of the technology of emortality and his long-delayed awakening into the 35th century.