In the near future, the cure for ageing is found. Will we and the world we live in survive it? Heres an entertaining examination of the possible consequences.

The Postmortal

Author: Drew Magary

Publisher: Penguin, 365 pages

THE cure for ageing has been found. Of course, its not legal ... yet. But thats not going to stop John Farrell from getting it.

After all, for the price of some blood, three admittedly painful injections, a waiting period of two weeks and US$7,000 (to be paid in denominations no higher than US$50), potential immortality is quite a good deal.

You can still die, of course, as the doctor who administers the cure to Farrell tells him. Those who have stopped ageing are still vulnerable to diseases like cancer and HIV/AIDS, as well as fatal accidents and murders.

But otherwise, Farrell will effectively be biologically 29 years old for the rest of his life.

The Postmortal is the story of the rest of his life, cleverly told through a LifeRecorder app in which Farrell records and saves his thoughts, conversation transcripts, e-mails, news links and digital articles.

Taking a page from the found-footage movie genre, this book is, in a sense, found footage, as readers will see from the prologue, which also cleverly drops in a one-sentence note at its end that tantalises readers into reading the book to find out what its about.

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Immortality will kill us