The Immortals

The Immortals

What would you trade to live forever - and who gets to decide the price?

A CRISPR upgrade sold on subscription. A fungal network that starts wanting things. A dying man's last bid for relevance, laundered through a start-up. A cult built on an algorithm's scripture. Twelve interconnected stories chase the oldest human wish - to cheat death - through the machinery we've actually built to chase it: biotech, finance, religion, code.

Across the collection, a reclusive founder's rise and disappearance threads through decades of ambition and consequence, while a Holmesian philosopher named Frost keeps turning up at the exact moment someone's certainty cracks - asking the one question they were hoping no one would.

The Immortals is speculative fiction with teeth: fast, unsentimental, and often very funny about the things people will do, buy, and believe to outlast their own expiration date. Fans of Black Mirror and Ted Chiang will recognize the instinct to follow an idea all the way to its logical - and uncomfortable - end.

He wants to live forever. He hopes these stories can.