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Lifers

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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. 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,...
Request Code : ZLIB.IO18262357
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Year:
2022
Publisher:
SparkPress
Language:
English
ISBN 13:
9781684632763
ISBN:
9781684632770, 9781684632763

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