![]() Mia Ziemann, at 94, is one of the most exemplary old people around - she has lived a careful life, she has lots of money, and she decides to devote these two things (which are actually the same thing - this society rewards healthy lifestyles) to a new life rejuvenation technology. ![]() I will say that I enjoyed the story of Holy Fire, but I know that some will find it too episodic. Sterling takes this simple premise and extrapolates all of the logical conclusions such that the reader is left wondering, well, how else could it be? Combine this with some particularly apt speculations about information technology, and the book has an extremely solid "what-if" underpinning.īut even the best bit of extrapolation into the future needs a story and some characters and things like that in order to keep the readers interested. They invest in promising medical technologies, which of course leads to an even longer life span for those with money. A hundred years from now, the older segments of the demographic have all the money. ![]() In Holy Fire, Sterling convincingly posits just such a thing. ![]() ![]() What comes to mind when you hear the phrase "the medical-industrial complex"? Perhaps some vast network of corporate giants, looking out for their own interests no matter the effect on society as a whole. Holy Fire, Bruce Sterling, Bantam Spectra, 1996, 326 pp. ![]()
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