Fountains of Youth

by Brian Stableford

Returning to the future history of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality, Brian Stableford has produced one of the most ambitious science fiction novels of the year.  Filled with bold and believable speculation not only of humanity's destiny, but of our origins as well, The Fountains of Youth promises to be remembered as Stableford's finest work to date.

It is the thirty-first century.  Historial Mortimer Gray has lived five centuries and has no reason not to expect to live five, ten, or twenty more.  He is an Emortal, one of the New Humans who have been born transformed after the conquest of Death.

The Fountains of Youth is a memoir of Gray's life and that of humanity in the second half of the next millennium, when genetic, cybernetic, continental, and even planetary engineering are the norm, when suicide is an art form, and diseases are for recreational use only.

Ranging from an ancient monastery in the high Himalayas to the farthest reaches of the galaxy, from the broadest concerns of what it means to be human to the private obsessions of a man fascinated by the one aspect of human experience that will never be his, The Fountains of Youth is as intimate as it is panoramic, and asmovign as it is epic.

Tor Books; hardcover. First edition/first printing; May 2000. Condition of book and dust jacket is new.  Cover art by Donato.  No reserve price. Buyers in California must pay state sales tax. Buyer pays shipping and handling; U.S. buyer pays $3.70 Media Mail S&H; Priority Mail available on buyer's request. (International buyer pays appropriate S&H costs.)