2213: Forever Young: Part Two: You Will Not Take My Place (Volume 2)

2213: FOREVER YOUNG is set in a future where the problem of aging has been solved by medical science. The catch: only the ultra rich, the One Percent can afford the extremely expensive Age Prevention Program, aka APP... Part Two, YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY PLACE, is about Jamie, Emma’s sole surviving relative and Jonathan, an American colleague of Emma’s at the luxury clinic. Jamie, age 30, is a 99 Percenter journalist who lives in Pasadena, California. He stands to inherit Emma’s place in the APP. Jonathan is 130 years old and his APP Life Watch has beeped while he was spending a day skiing in Zermatt, warning him that his time is up. He must return to the APP Station in his hometown, in Pasadena, California, where he will benefit from an assisted painless death. Jonathan would like to pass on his place in the APP to his lover, Alice, a young and beautiful Swiss woman and a 99 Percenter. But will his daughter Jeanie, who stands in line to inherit, allow it? This is a serial novel with episodes exploring different facets of our future. It is done in the vein of 1984, Clockwork Orange or WOOL, that examine through plots full of suspense and adventure and enticing characters the issues that we are facing today. In the case of 2213:FOREVER YOUNG, it is the great divide that is polarizing our society, with the One Percent increasingly reaping the benefits of technological advances at the expense of the 99percent.