Misspent Youth
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780345461643 (0345461649)
Publish date: September 16th 2008
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
Series: Commonwealth Universe
it's like watching a trainwreck happening and not being able to pull your eyes away, 'cause, maybe, it will not go the way you think it will, and then it goes exactly that way, but you continue reading, hoping that the author might still fix things somehow and pull off a happy end, and you wouldn't ...
A commonplace of recent "hard" SF is the idea of very long lifespans and rejuvenation of the body. Hamilton has used it himself in his space-opera series. Here he decides to make it the focus of a stand-alone novel, examining the impact on the very first recipient and his family.My usual complaint...