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  • By: Joe Haldeman
  • Narrated by: Eric Vale
  • Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (5 ratings)

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From Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Joe Haldeman, the best-selling author of The Forever War and Forever Peace, comes a thrilling sci-fi story that examines a world where time truly is money, and what happens when they both run out.

More even than space travel, the Stileman Process has altered 21st-century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensures that every 10 years or so, the ailing aging body can be restored to youthful vigour and health. There's a catch, of course: the cost. Every 10 years or so, you have to come up with £1,000,000 minimum to repeat the procedure or die.

For Dallas Barr, one of the oldest men on earth, it's that time again. While casting around desperately for his next essential £1,000,000, he meets Maria, a woman from - literally - a previous life, and makes two major discoveries.

One: Not all Stileman "immortals" were born - or created - the same.

Two: Someone is trying to kill them. All of them.

©1989 Joe Haldeman (P)2016 Novel Audio Inc.

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  • 10-02-2019

One of my favourite sci-fi books

I read this book many years ago and it was responsible for making Joe Halderman one of my favourite authors. I have come back to it again after enjoying many of his other books. The narration was mostly good but the main character's American accent grated on me at first.

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