The Fountains of Youth
Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he can potentially live forever, hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality. 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.
- Publisher
- Tor
- ISBN-13
- 9780312872069
- Genre
- Topics
- Immortality and emortalityDeath and its meaning to civilizationFuture history and societal evolution
Awards
- Locus Award for Best Science Fiction NovelShortlisted(2001)
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