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Title: Growing Young by Dean Warren ISBN: 1-4010-5162-6 Publisher: Xlibris Corporation Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.99

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A THINKING PERSON'S BOOK
Comment: Warren's book tells a story, packed with suspense, of what happens when a doctor concocts a method to reverse the human aging process. The regimen, requiring only a few days, could change a deathbed, eighty-year-old person to age twenty-five. The treatment would give this youngster an endless, disease-free life. The main character, Mark Langer an elderly retired former World Health Organization director, locates Dr. Susan Bastian who has fostered the scientific breakthrough. Susan gives him the treatment.

Mark suggests that Susan ascribe to his plan, a method that would include humans of all levels and a system regulated by a world wide government. The villains have different ideas, and two other methods of using the anti-aging scheme become a source of conflict. A wealthy industrialist wishes to preempt the doctor's secret and offer the treatment to those able to pay big bucks. Another faction from the criminal element plans to seize the doctor and take the full advantage of the regimen. Warren takes the reader through several creative and gripping twists as he weaves his thriller story into supprise ending.

This novel assumes that almost everyone would opt for new life through the anti-aging procedure. The premise being that, without controls, a serious population buildup would result. This reviewer began to question the assumption at mid point of the book when war over the aging cure broke out. What would I do if offered a chance to regain my youth and secure a boundless life? Is the fear of death at work here? These questions provoked some strong thoughts. I resolved that I would refuse the offered regimen. Death has no sting, considering what Christ tells us and what John says about the hereafter as recorded in Revelation 7:9-17.

I recommend you read this book; it will make you think.

Rating: 5
Summary: About the implications of a cure for aging
Comment: Growing Young by Dean Warren is an adventurous and intriguing science fiction novel about Dr. Mark Langer, an old man who is presented with a cure for aging. Langer undertakes the treatment and reverses his aging body to one the status of a robust and health 25 years. Yet in a world already crushed with overpopulation, how is he to see that this magnificent achievement is not abused for malevolent ends? Growing Young accomplishes what science fiction does best -- provides the reader with a profound and thoughtful saga about how the possibility of immortality could affect human society as a whole.