Architects of Emortality
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ISBN: 0312872070 / Publisher: Tor Books, October 1999
In a future world where most people can live to be three hundred, and a lucky few exist for a thousand years, a series of murders threatens to destabilize a civilization already moving through radical changes
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In Architects of Emortality, Stableford gives us a story set hundreds of years in the future, filled with people who can hope for three-hundred-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.
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