Who Wants to Live Forever? -Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon, - wrote British novelist Susan Ertz. So it would seem that humankind was never designed-emotionally or spiritually, let alone biologically-for long, productive lives. But new, life-extending technologies based on advanced genetics and stem-cell reprogramming are coming at us anyway. Construction magnate John Praxis topples over on the golf course from a massive heart attack. And the attorney who was litigating against him, Antigone Wells, succumbs to a stroke. Both...
Who Wants to Live Forever? -Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon, - wrote British novel...
Can you go back in time and kill your own grandfather as a boy? Sure. Then someone else will spawn your genes. You will remember that person just as fondly as "grand-pere." Of course, all the details of your life will change, everything you know to be true will change, you yourself will change, and everything else will fit around these new facts. That is the operative theory of the travelers known as "Jongleurs du Temps," the Time Jugglers, the far-future masters of time's ever-branching river. On a Search mission from the 11th millennium, and posing as a little girl, Jongleur Merola Tsverin...
Can you go back in time and kill your own grandfather as a boy? Sure. Then someone else will spawn your genes. You will remember that person just as f...
"Old boats are like a beautiful woman," observes a passerby on the dock as he inspects the steam yacht Galatea. "They call to you. They entice you. And then they steal your soul." He calls that feeling "the sickness." William Henry Wheelock has achieved his ambition of becoming a professor of classical studies and settled down in a cottage on campus with his wife Jane and young daughter Dani. But Jane is ill-suited to the quiet, academic life and-in a fit of rage ignited by an old misunderstanding-suddenly leaves him for parts unknown. William Henry plods on stoically, teaching his classes...
"Old boats are like a beautiful woman," observes a passerby on the dock as he inspects the steam yacht Galatea. "They call to you. They entice you. An...
Before the frenzied modern era of superhighways, television, and the internet, American life was lived in small towns, in places where families knew every neighbor; where the bonds of love and hatred, friendship and feud, were tightly woven across generations. In such a town lived Robert Wheelock. He was soft-spoken, intelligent, Harvard-educated, and seemingly destined from birth for great things. His father, the county judge and owner of the local railroad and electric company, was wealthy and respected. So Robert's own success appeared assured ... until the judge's sudden death dealt a...
Before the frenzied modern era of superhighways, television, and the internet, American life was lived in small towns, in places where families knew e...
