![]() The author's insights and critical examination of the ideas of aging,life extension and the ultimate cost of government control/interference/regulation in and of the lives of the people are particularly relevant to this day. Going underground in the avant-garde circles of central Europe, she attempts to find liberation and fulfillment in art. The conflict of newly rediscovered youth and the geriatric bureaucracy that she helped to create is compelling and even poignant. When ninety-four year old Mia Ziemann, a respectable medical economist, undergoes a novel treatment which gives her the body and brain of a twenty year-old, she breaks loose. The story revolves around a mid-level bureaucrat (Mia) who is granted access to a radical new and experimental rejuvenation treatment as a reward for good service and behavior. ![]() The young have become a tiny minority who are becoming strident,despondent and even militant in a world where they may never be aloud to "come of age". ![]() The result a slowly stagnating geriatric hierarchy that refuses to die and relinquish power. An entire generation bends the will and resources of the world to combat the effects of aging and the extension of the human lifespan. Originally initiated as an emergency measure that was enacted to save the world from man made plagues and retro-viruses, the bureaucracy slowly evolves into a world culture that is obsessed with the ideal of longevity. A world where the oil driven industrial/military complex is replaced by a purely medically driven bureaucracy. ![]() ![]() A provocative, insightful yet chilling tale of the very possible near future. Bruce Sterling, named 'one of the best thinkers in science fiction today' by Newsweek, now presents a cutting-edge novel about the beginning of the transformation of the human race. ![]()
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