By Peter F. Hamilton
ISBN-10: 0345495519
ISBN-13: 9780345495518
Readers have realized to anticipate the unforeseen from Peter F. Hamilton. Now the grasp of house opera specializes in near-future Earth and one most original kin. the result's a coming-of-age story like no different. via turns comedian, erotic, and tragic, Misspent adolescence is a profound and well timed exploration of all that divides and unites fathers and sons, women and men, the younger and the old.
2040. After a long time of targeted learn and experimentation within the box of genetic engineering, scientists of the ecu Union think they've got eventually conquered humankind’s so much pernicious foe: outdated age. For the 1st time, expertise holds out the promise of now not simply slowing the getting older method yet truly reversing it. the traditional dream of the Fountain of teenage turns out at hand.
The first topic for therapy is seventy-eight-year-old philanthropist Jeff Baker. After eighteen months in a rejuvenation tank, Jeff emerges having a look like a twenty-year-old. And the switch is greater than pores and skin deep. From his hair cells right down to his DNA, Jeff is twenty–with a breadth of existence adventure.
But whereas owning the knowledge of a septuagenarian at age twenty is something, raging testosterone is one other, as Jeff discovers while he makes an attempt to choose up his lifestyles the place he left off. all at once his oldest acquaintances look, good, outdated. Jeff’s trophy spouse appears larger than she ever did. His teenage son, Tim, is extra like a more youthful brother. And Tim’s nubile female friend is a conquest too tempting to resist.
Jeff’s rejuvenated libido wreaks havoc at the lives of his family and friends, straining his courting with Tim to the brink. It’s as though formative years is a drug and Jeff is wasted on it. but when so, it’s an habit he has little interest in kicking.
As Jeff’s own existence spirals uncontrolled, the eu Union undergoes a parallel meltdown, attacked by way of shadowy separatist teams whose violent activities earn either condemnation and applause. Now, in a single terrifying immediate, the private and the political will intersect, and neither Jeff nor Tim–or the Union itself–will ever be an identical back.
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So says this one-eyed Armenian fortune-teller as he peers into his crystal ball. " he said. There wasn't a flicker of recognition in his eyes, although he knew who I was and that I would be coming to the house at any time. He and Gregory had resolved to give me a chilly welcome. I can only guess at their deliberations prior to my arrival, but they must have been along the lines of my being a parasite which Marilee had brought into the house, a thief who had already stolen hundreds of dollars' worth of art materials.
I hope I haven't done anything wrong so far. There weren't any other Mohammedans to advise me. " I didn't want to spoil his good time, so I told him that everything looked perfect to me. "Just don't eat pork too near the casket," I said. " he said. " Which he did. 9 How GOOD were those pictures of mine which Dan Gregory looked at so briefly before he shoved Marilee down the stairs? Technically, if not spiritually, they were pretty darn good for a kid my age -- a kid whose self-imposed lessons had consisted of copying, stroke by stroke, illustrations by Dan Gregory.
The farms that were whisked away by the winds: where are they now? Growing fish food on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. These defeated white Indians at the crossings were nothing new to me. I had seen plenty of them passing through San Ignacio, asking the likes of me or my father, or even an emotionally opaque Luma Indian, if we knew of somebody who needed anybody to do work of any kind. And I was awakened from my railroad dream at midnight by Fred Jones. He said that Mr. Gregory would see me now.
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