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"The SF approach: an awareness that things could have been different, that this is one of many possible worlds, that if you came to this world from some other planet, this would be a science fiction world."
- Neal Stephenson
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| Anti-agathic drugs | ||
| Drugs that indefinitely postpone death from old age. |
| "...What we want now is something much more direct: an antitoxin against the ageing toxin of humans. We know that the ageing toxin exists in all complex animals. We know that it's a single, specific substance, quite distinct from the poisons that cause the degenerative diseases. And we know that it can be neutralized. When your lab animals were given ascomycin, they didn't develop a single degenerative disease - but they died anyhow, at about the usual time, as if they'd been set, like a clock, at birth...
"So what we're looking for now is not an antibiotic - an anti-life drug - but an anti-agathic, an anti-death drug..." |
| From Cities in Flight,
by James Blish. Published by Avon in 1957 Additional resources -
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The anti-agathics were part of what made interstellar space flight possible in the novel; the administrators and essential personnel of the cities received the necessary treatments.
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