With a bold range of interdisciplinary references, from nanomedicine and
cybernetics to philosophy and cosmology, Damien Broderick’s The Last Mortal
Generation is a robust, determinedly cheerful survey of death: what it is, where
it comes from and how to make it go away. Published by New Holland,
$19.95, ISBN 1864364408.
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