Joe Haldeman's Old Twentieth is set far in the future, when near-immortal citizens long for the days when bodies spontaneously healed and death was caused by disease and age. A virtual reality time machine can bring them in contact with the bygone world of their past - but when the time machine itself becomes sentient, it too is obsessed with humanity - and wants its engineer Jacob to debate life.5/5(5). Find many great new used options and get the best deals for Old Twentieth by Joe Haldeman (, UK- A Format Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products! · Old Twentieth. Joe Haldeman. • 25 Ratings; $; $; Publisher Description. The twentieth century lies hundreds of years in humanity’s past. But the near-immortal citizens of the future yearn for the good old days—when people’s bodies were susceptible to death through disease and old age. Now, they immerse themselves in virtual.
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Joe Haldeman at a reading of his novel Old Twentieth Old Twentieth works under two fairly heavy handicaps. The first is that most of it is been-there, done-that, and in speculative fiction, which is at its best idea driven, that’s a particular handicap. The second handicap is that, while the protagonist is fully fleshed and sympathetic, the background scenario (genocide of those unlucky poor) was so much in my mind I had trouble caring about these mostly-conscience-free immortals. In Old Twentieth the ideas Haldeman juggles are immortality, Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and a variant on the generation starship. He is also, as the title tells us, concerned with the 20th Century, the bloodiest century (though the 21st will turn out to be bloodier, says this novel), and the last century in which death was inevitable. Old Twentieth takes place hundreds of years in the future. Humanity is nearly immortal and they immerse themselves in virtual reality time machines to explore the past. During a thousand-year voyage to Beta Hydrii the member crew begin to die as the time machine becomes sentient. It's a very interesting book, like all of Joe Haldeman's novels.
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