Folk wrote a six-page intro to this classic scifi novel from 1960. She was impressed by its focus on our culture’s expectations of women’s youthful looks. Wyndham took the angle that it would be a driving force in the quest for immortality. Then he showed the social political religious and economic backlash against it. This is perhaps the best novel in the “secret immortal” subgenre (sorry, Lazarus Long, Hedrock, Conrad, …) while the best short story is Simak’s ‘Grotto of the Dancing Deer’ from 1980. That’s my opinion and recommendation anyway. Live long and prosper, uhhh, in secret. ~~ ML Fringe

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