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Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series and for Del Rey Books the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy Lynn del Rey. The Dwindling Years book series Also published as site_link Philip St John site_link Eric van Lihn site_link Erik van Lhin site_link Kenneth Wright site_link Edson McCann with site_link Frederik Pohl Lester del Rey was an American science fiction author and editor Del Rey is especially famous for his juvenile novels such as those which are part of the Winston Science Fiction series and for Del Rey Books the fantasy and science fiction branch of Ballantine Books edited by Lester del Rey and his fourth wife Judy Lynn del Rey. Book The Dwindling years by john Also published as site_link Philip St John site_link Eric van Lihn site_link Erik van Lhin site_link Kenneth Wright site_link Edson McCann with site_link Frederik Pohl site_link Another late Golden Age sf story dealing with immortalitykind of What if people are almost immortal Specifically concerning space exploration Humans living longer means a two hundred year journey to a star colony doesn t require a generation ship cryogenics But it does require a way to alleviate boredom don t worry about carrying supplies for a two hundred year journey Also when we do get to the stars family ties fade because much like when people left Europe for the American west they can t keep in touch Maybe a message every fifteen years or so depending on technology. Fantasy The Dwindling years criteria So what happens when you realize you re coming to the end of your extended lifespan It s no fun living long if half that time is living alone ebook A short story from a future earth that has discovered the ability to live foreveror so they think It was enjoyable and thought provoking but not outstanding ebook One QuestionWould you like to be practically immortal No longer to count your years singly nor in decades but in centuries instead Would such a prospect sound promising to you Lester del Ray s short story The Dwindling Years which was first published in 1956 is set in a world in which humans have found the key to a seemingly everlasting life by tapping the memory of the human cells and using it for rejuvenating the complete body over and over again and thus expanding life by centuries What however are the side effects of this apparent gain in longevity For starters human relations are wearing thin because after seventy or a hundred years your attachment to another individual even to your own children or parents will cool off Another side effect is that people s readiness to take risks and be they ever so unspectacular has utterly declined partly because the danger of losing a leg or an arm in an accident is horrible if you know that the consequences will have to be borne for centuries now and partly because why should you take a risk to bring about a change e. The Dwindling Years book summary g by testing a new technology if you have all the time in the world to see if you cannot achieve your aim in a less dangerous way The result of this mindset is an increase in safety measures and a very conservative attitude towards change in general. Book The Dwindling years by john Being a short story the text only gives us casual glimpses into everyday life in such a society but it is probably not too much a case of stretching the point when I say that people who no longer value social contacts and intercourse who avoid any risks and encumber their daily lives with all sorts of safety measures and who postpone things to an indefinite later date because right now they seem to be too dangerous people who are so obsessed with prolonging their lives that they miss the point of what it means to be alive are nearer death than they think Of course there are no people like that in our real world or are there I would really have no idea but in 1956 when this story was published there must have been or otherwise this tale would have been pointless What you can make of it in 2022 is of course entirely up to you. The Dwindling Years fantasy summary The punchline del Ray comes up with is highly philosophical and it is this that the certainty of death is what gives life its value and its purpose Time is a precious resource and although many people would subscribe to the old phrase of carpe diem or may even have a picture of this motto hanging in their houses it is not many people who actually live their lives according to it This may well have to do with the daily routines we are caught in in that we have to work during most of our lifetime in order to keep up our living standards a necessity that all too soon results in our leading standard lives because we are so very busy and don t want to experience social exclusion and endanger our jobs by voicing our criticism of whatever we think does not go right in our society but it also has to do with current discourses which inculcate both guilty consciences and fear with us The guilty conscience is based on our lives destroying the planet by exploiting its resources on other people being worse off than we on ourselves being racists or some kind of phobes no matter what we think we feel and think and so on and the things we are talked into being afraid of are legion All this prevents us from making real use of our lives from expressing ourselves from enjoying the odd moment and from considering what we really need and really want There will be the special serious hour that is allotted for us and what lies between now and that hour is an irretrievable resource of valuable time we ought to use for what makes us and people we love and value happy Reading this little short story made me a little aware of this truth ebook Fun little short tale with a heartening ending ebook In an age where the human race has achieved near immortality a corporate executive is shocked to learn that his longevity treatments failed forcing him to shift his priorities ebook

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The book The Dwindling Years has been considered important throughout the human history and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations This whole book has been reformatted retyped and designed These books are not made of scanned copies and hence the text is clear and readable The Dwindling Years4 20 34 mins Part of LibriVox Audiobook Short SF Collection Vol 058 Well narrated by Dale Grothmann Story about longevity from Lester Del Ray ebook.