immortality

An English translation of the epic poem which dates from the third millennium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.

Sometime in the future thirty-nine-year-old Lenny Abramov works for a firm that offers immortality for its wealthy clients in a world crushed by a credit crisis and violence. Still Lenny tries to convince his love, Eunice, that it is worthwhile be alive.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

Twenty-thousand years in the future, humans confront a rapidly expanding vacuum that devours everything in its path. Tchicaya works with the Yielders to study the vacuum and allow it to grow. He is conflicted when his first love, Mariama, enters his life on behalf of the Preservationists, who want to destroy the vacuum. What none of the futurists know is that life is developing in the center of the vacuum.

The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.

A Jedi master must infiltrate a Sith academy to save a young Jedi hostage, but the Sith Lord in charge has barricade himself away and strange outbursts of violence have created added tension among the Sith apprentices.

Jonathan Weiner explores scientific theories on the potential for human immortality, examining the ideas of scientists and thinkers who believe that aging is a curable disease such as Aubrey de Grey, and discussing the history of the search for human longevity with examples from art, science, and literature.

Justin Sterling, a killer who has lived for centuries in service to an ancient entity known as the Dragon, and Sandra McCormick, a dedicated Chicago cop who has been assigned to find the person who murdered a fellow officer, soon discover they are stalking one another and that they are falling in love.

Presents an English version of the epic poem which dates from the third millenium B.C., telling of the adventures of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, and his search for immortality.