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Lifers

Lifers

McWalter, Keith G.

Paperback

Science Fiction

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ISBN10: 1684632765
ISBN13: 9781684632763
Publisher: Sparkpress
Published: Oct 15 2024
Pages: 328
Weight: 0.90
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Electric with compelling action and trenchant social commentary and perfect for fans of Nikki Erlick's The Measure, this genre-straddling work of speculative fiction examines ageism from a new and challenging perspective.

Lifers is a fast-paced, cautionary tale about the human quest for longevity that shocks and captivates as it unveils the realities of mortality, ageism, and the power of loyalty and love.--Ann Hagedorn, author of Sleeper Agent and Beyond the River

In the year 2050, the man known as Zinn is on the run from the consequences of his greatest creation: an artificial genome that wildly increases the human lifespan. His Methuselah gene has gone viral, and he's being hunted by Adele, a semi-retired CIA biowarfare specialist who hopes to find a way to reverse the genome's effects before it's too late.

As the longevity plague spreads, populations explode, economies are upended, and intergenerational resentments boil over. Adele searches for a cure while her former lover, Dan Altman, and his wife, Marion, wealthy political operatives both, become leaders of a movement of hundred-plus-year-old lifers and fight to create a sanctuary for the ultra-aged in the wilds of Colorado. Meanwhile, the Altmans' son, Nolan, thinks he has the answer to the longevity crisis: a suicide pill that kills after one year, a death wish algorithm that will influence the super-aged to take it, and his beautiful daughter, Claire, who is a spokesperson for the growing anti-lifer backlash and the head of the federal government's new Department for Longevity Management.

Combining a hugely topical premise with a vein of social-political satire, Lifers evokes a world where society's ingrained ageism turns lethal and the fear of death is replaced by the challenge of living on . . . and on.

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