Michael Kaufman shares the premise of his new dystopian mystery novel – The Last Exit.
“This is a world of growing inequality, of rising unemployment because of… automation, and growing population…By this point big pharma companies have developed longevity treatments,… they’ve made it staggeringly expensive – the ultra rich can live if not forever, then for pretty near that…
Well how do ..policy makers in 2033 deal with rising population, the impact of climate change and all this? They’ve developed an awful policy called Exit. If a parent agrees to voluntarily die when they’re sixty-five, their children get.. a modified version of this longevity treatment…The reason why this is particularly important;… people in their forties and fifties are actually dying in large numbers because of (an) untreatable virus
…at the very beginning my detective hears rumors of some sort of street version of this treatment…Then some people start mysteriously dying,… She needs to track down who is behind this what’s happening, and why…so that’s where it starts. “
“This is a world of growing inequality, of rising unemployment because of… automation, and growing population…By this point big pharma companies have developed longevity treatments,… they’ve made it staggeringly expensive – the ultra rich can live if not forever, then for pretty near that…
Well how do ..policy makers in 2033 deal with rising population, the impact of climate change and all this? They’ve developed an awful policy called Exit. If a parent agrees to voluntarily die when they’re sixty-five, their children get.. a modified version of this longevity treatment…The reason why this is particularly important;… people in their forties and fifties are actually dying in large numbers because of (an) untreatable virus
…at the very beginning my detective hears rumors of some sort of street version of this treatment…Then some people start mysteriously dying,… She needs to track down who is behind this what’s happening, and why…so that’s where it starts. “
Fiction has an amazing way of connecting us with other human beings, with possibilities, which is strange because it’s fiction., because its not true,
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children,
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