The Dragon Man

Tales of the Biotech Revolution

by Brian M. Stableford

300 years in the future, biotechnology has altered the shape and substance of what it means to be a man. Only the 250-year-old "Dragon Man" can give Sara an understanding of what "e-mortality" might mean--for herself and for the entire human world.

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

182 pages, Paperback

First published January 9, 2009

About the author

Brian Michael Stableford was a British science fiction writer who published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.

Reviews

[Andrew Brooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Tedious

I was struggling to make progress with this book. Then, at 40% read, I found within the text my problem defined: "We’re supposed to be figuring out how to live for hundreds of years without getting bogged down in utter tedium."
Actually, the purported purpose of the group was figuring out parenting by committee, with eight parents raising one child! While this idea had a lot of Interest for me initially (having divorced repeatedly myself), but I found the story doing exactly that, bogging down in tedium.
DNF