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Elan Vital by K. Tempest Bradford

A woman gives her all to help her ailing mother.....

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Black Oxen by Gertrude Atherton

An aging countess undergoes special treatments to restore her body to youthfulness. ..

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The Rejuvenation of Major Rathbone by Jack London

A revitalizing formula returns "youthful spontaneity" to an old man...

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Am I Still There? by James R. Hall

409-year-old Mr. Lee requires another organ replacement...

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The Martyr by Alan E. Nourse

"Rejuvenation for the millions—or rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year?"..

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The Planet with No Nightmare by Jim Harmon

"The creatures on the little planet were real bafflers. The first puzzler about them was that they died so easily. The second was that they didn't die at all."..

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Paradise Afternoon by Gregory Benford

The FDA really doesn't want research into longevity drugs. ..

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Forever by Ned Lang (Robert Sheckley)

"Of all the irksome, frustrating, maddening discoveries—was there no way of keeping it discovered?"..

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Beggars in Spain (Excerpt) by Nancy Kress

A growing number of humans genetically engineered to not need sleep find themselves outcast from society...

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Hot House Flowers by Mike Resnick

"... somewhere back in the dim and distant past man invented medicine. It had its good centuries and its bad centuries, but by the end of the last millennium it was curing so many diseases a..