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Book 1: Inherit The Earth
In the twenty-second century, biomedical nanotechnology has given everyone
in the world long life and robust health. It is the New Utopia, and all live
in the expectation that true immortality will soon be realized.
Damon Hart, son of the scientist responsible for much of the wonders of the
new world, would rather forget his famous father and get on with his own life.
But a shadowy terrorist group forces Damon to confront his heritage, launching
a cat-and-mouse game that pits Damon against the terrorists, Interpol, and the
powerful corporations that control the biotechnology of the future...a game
Damon is ill-equipped to survive.
Book 2: Architects of Emortality
Brian Stableford launched an ambitious future history series last year with
Inherit the Earth, to widespread praise. "Stableford has created in this novel
a totally believable world, and wrapped it around a series of mysterious events,
surprise revelations, double crosses, confused motivations, rumors, lies, plots,
and counterplots. ... Tightly controlled and suspenseful throughout," said
Science Fiction Chronicle. Library Journal said, "The ethical questions posed
by the prospect of conquering the aging process underscore this fast-paced SF
adventure, adding depth to a story that will appeal to fans of high-tech SF and
conspiracy theories." This future world is a complex society obsessed with the
technology of life extension and on the brink of creating true immortals.
Now, in Architects of Emortality, Stableford gives us a story set hundreds of
years in the future, filled with people who can hope for 300-year lifespans and
a fortunate few whose lives will be in the thousands of years. This society is
on the edge of radical change, where people have the time to develop eccentric
lifestyles and personal obsessions, a world sometimes reminiscent of the distant
future of Michael Moorcock's Dancers at the End of Time series. And there has
been a series of murders that threaten the future stability of the world, murders
executed by bioengineered flowers. Police officers Watson and Holmes investigate,
but the central figure quickly becomes the amateur detective Oscar Wilde, a student
of history who has taken on the persona of his namesake. And the question is not
so much who the murderer is, but how and why.
Filled with memorable characters and powerful and striking images of the richly
altered world of the future, Architects of Emortality is a satisfying and complete
story that also adds depth and detail to the evolving series.
Book 3: The Fountains of Youth
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.
Book 4: The Cassandra Complex
Veteran British author Stableford's Emortality series of future history novels
(Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality and Fountains of Youth, which start
in the 22nd century and end in the 26th) receives a near-future underpinning in
this mid-21st-century puzzle of maneuvers in the face of impending doom. Police
forensic scientist Lisa Friemann wakes one night to armed intruders in her highly
secure dwelling. Nothing in all the information storage media the thieves steal
seems important, or even work related. Events are hardly clarified by the news
that prominent geneticist Morgan Miller, her graduate supervisor and longtime
colleague, is missing. Does someone think Miller made a discovery that, contrary
to usual practice, he had shared with no one in his field? And why would anyone
want to bomb Mouseworld, the half-million-strong genetic library of rodent strains?
Lisa's cityplex police and university colleagues enter the story one by one,
followed by a confusing (to all concerned) array of other agencies and factions.
Could there be a secret that will avert or postpone the expected world catastrophe,
or at least give some people advantages over others? Stableford's background in
biological and social sciences makes for convincing behavior and dialogue among
the scientists, while long practice in the novelist's trade ensures a smooth and
involving read. This series should remain more visible in the U.S. than his large
stable of unjustly neglected past work.
Book 5: Dark Ararat
British author and critic Stableford adds a fifth novel to his Emortality series
(Inherit the Earth, etc.) with this heavily speculative tale that puts the "science"
in science fiction. Expanding on the episode of humanity's first extrasolar colony
from The Fountains of Youth (2000), he devises an entire biosystem based on a dual
coding genome rather than Earth's sole replicator molecule, DNA. That changes
everything, as the colonists learn, from reproductive strategies and lifecycles to
the basic taste (mildly unpleasant) of native food. Cultural as well as scientific
conflicts afflict the passengers of the colony ship Hope, whose crew members seek
to expand their mission to include other stars so that they can declare the colony
self-sufficient. Unfrozen from suspended animation, Matthew Fleury, an ecologist
and televangelist, must solve both the mystery of a murder and the mystery of life
itself down on the planet called Ararat. Weaving the two plot lines together is
the suggestion that the murder was committed by intelligent humanoid natives,
builders of the abandoned city in which the crime took place. After talking with
every faction on ship and planet, Matt travels by boat to the unexplored great
plains downriver, and the novel picks up speed as his team adventures among the
native flora and the very lively fauna. Despite his reputation as "an arrogant
son of a bitch" and an "egomaniac," Matt is ultimately a sympathetic hero, whose
intellectual and emotional leaps of faith justify the reader's belief in him.
Book 6: The Omega Expedition
A sequel to The Fountains of Youth finds "emortality" technology developer Adam
Zimmerman awakening in the thirty-fifth century, where his exotic hosts have
recruited various immortals, including death historian Mortimer Gray, for the
project.
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