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Buying Time

By: Avon Books

Type: Novel - Softcover

Product Line: Science Fiction Novels (Avon Books)


Product Info

Title
Buying Time
Publisher
Category
Sub-category
Author
Joe Haldeman
Publish Year
1989
Pages
304
Dimensions
4.25x6.75x1"
NKG Part #
2148126524
Type
Novel - Softcover

Description

From Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Joe Haldeman, the best-selling author of The Forever War and Forever Peace, comes a thrilling sci-fi story that examines a world where time truly is money, and what happens when they both run out.

More even than space travel, the Stileman Process has altered 21st-century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensures that every 10 years or so, the ailing aging body can be restored to youthful vigour and health. There's a catch, of course: the cost. Every 10 years or so, you have to come up with £1,000,000 minimum to repeat the procedure or die.

For Dallas Barr, one of the oldest men on earth, it's that time again. While casting around desperately for his next essential £1,000,000, he meets Maria, a woman from - literally - a previous life, and makes two major discoveries.

One: Not all Stileman "immortals" were born - or created - the same.

Two: Someone is trying to kill them. All of them.