The Fountains of Youth (Emortality, #3)

This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope and ambition, filled with wonders that expands Brian Stableford's on-going future history series. Hundreds of years in the future, further ahead than the settings of Inherit the Earth and Architects of Emortality, Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he can potentially live forever. But 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.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. The memoir of historian Mortimer Gray's life and "that of humanity in the second half of the next millenium, when genetic, cybernetic, continental, and even planetary engineering are the norm, when suicide is an art form and diseases are for recreational use only."--Jacket Mortimer Gray is born into a world where he might live forever. After a natural disaster wipes out millions and nearly kills him too, he devotes 500 years of his life to studying death and its effect upon human civilisation.