I'm hoping someone can help me. I'm trying to rediscover a triology of books that I read probably about 20 years ago.
The first book focuses on two brothers, a couple of years apart in age. It's discovered that the government has been adding something to food that makes people immortal if they take it before they hit puberty. One brother becomes immortal, another doesn't.
The non-immortal brother dies in the second book and the immortal one is involved in politics (I think). I remember the non-immortal is one of the last of the non-immortals to die. He creates a living tomb to remind people of who he was (a lot of non-immortals do it).
It's also during this book that it's learned that those who become immortal lose their creativity and artistic abilties, so to keep the culture alive children are no longer given the drug until right before puberty and allowed to decide whether they want to be immortal or be creative (if they have that ability).
I think the third book had to do with the immortal brother leading a group into space. I never liked that one as much.
In my mind, parts of the second book remind me of OSC's Unaccompanied Sonata, and parts of Haldeman's Worlds Apart.
I'm hoping to find it to see how much of it I remember and how much I filled in in my mind.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
It's called Lord of the Rings, and you've rather seriously misremembered parts of it.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
In all seriousness, even if you can't find this trilogy, you should look up OSC's Capitol, Hot Sleep, and Worthing Chronicles novels.
Posted by ricree101 (Member # 7749) on :
I agree with Tom. Plus, Hot Sleep is available in the first issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show, which is all around excellent and only costs $2.50.
Personally, I preferred Hot Sleep over Worthing Chronicles, but that is just a matter of preference
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
quote:It's called Lord of the Rings, and you've rather seriously misremembered parts of it.
Icky beat me to it. <_<
Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
lol
Posted by Objectivity (Member # 4553) on :
quote:Originally posted by ricree101: I agree with Tom. Plus, Hot Sleep is available in the first issue of Intergalactic Medicine Show, which is all around excellent and only costs $2.50.
Personally, I preferred Hot Sleep over Worthing Chronicles, but that is just a matter of preference
I have Worthing Chronicles, although as I look at my bookshelf it seems to have migrated elsewhere. Oh, there it is by Greg Rucka and Steve Saylor, one shelf below where it's supposed to be.
Are the differences significant? Or is it just a revision and update? That's the same question that I have about Treason and A Planet Called... but there's no easy way to find out.
As far as my original question, the author's name was from the end of the alphabet, T or laters. I'm guessing probably closer to Z because I remember it being at the bottom of the shelf at the end of the Science Fiction section of the library.