The Omega Expedition

The Omega Expedition is a philosophical novel, an independent work, but also a sequel to both Inherit the Earth and The Fountains of Youth. It begins with the extraordinary life-history of Adam Zimmerman, developer of the technology of emortality. The main part of the narrative describes his long-delayed awakening into the 35th century, a time of true immortals. His exotic hosts—inhabitants of a microworld in the outer solar system—have recruited various interested parties to help with the project, one of whom (inevitably) is the famous historian of death, the immortal Mortimer Gray, who is exceedingly anxious to gain what insight he can into the vagaries of the mortal mind.