Forever Formula

Rating:
Summary: This book is an excellent sci-fi story for young readers.
Review: Having read this book several times over the course of my late chilhood/early teenage years, I have to give it a high rating. It is a work of sci-fi suspense in which a teenage boy wakes up in "the future" and has to decide for himself how to use valuable information buried deep within his subconscious. His mind contains a "forever formula" that will guarantee immortality for humanity, and he must navigate both friends and foes in a strange culture in order to decide who he can trust to access this valuable information.

For those interested in the sci-fi aspects, this book contains interesting descriptions of technology (everyday and otherwise) in "the future". I particularly liked the fact that the author does not sugar-coat the future; among the characters there are those who are "morally challenged" in some ways, and one character's description of marriage in "the future" is not the idyllic, lifelong love that we often describe it as today.

Overall, I find this to be a very interesting book - and my favorite choice for car trips. There are plenty of twists and turns in the plot to keep any reader entertained. I am sorry to find that it is out of print.

Rating:
Summary: An enjoyable tale with memorable imagery.
Review: I first read this book (along with several others by the author) back when I was in middle-school, and for years the images of his desciptions of futuristic technology have stuck with me.I've found it intertesting in the years since how many other books (and movies too) have "borrowed" key elements from this author's works.

Maybe he has a lot more fans out there than we realize. It's a shame this book is out of print...that should be rectified!

Rating:
Summary: Good, but not as good as Missing Person's League
Review: This book was enjoyable. The characters didn't excite me as much as The Missing Person's League.

Both books have similar themes. In this book, lives have been extended. People get old and bored. They don't have anything to live for. Nor are there resources left for them.

A boy who was cryogenically frozen is re-animated because his memory contains the forever formula - a better life extension drug that promises to keep people healthier longer.

A group of people don't want this formula released. What will happen?