Plot summary edit The plot concerns a young female biochemist who discovers that a chemical extracted from an unusual strain of lichen can be used to slow down the ageing process, enabling people to live to around 200300 years. But the younger and more daring Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo and free women from the career-versus-children binary-in short, a chance to remake the world. Trouble with Lichen (published 1960) is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham. Francis, realizing the horrifying implications of an ever-youthful wealthy elite, decides to keep his findings a secret. Id not heard of this John Wyndham work until one of my work colleagues lent me a. What if humans discovered the secret to prolonged life?įrancis Saxover and Diana Brackley, two biochemists investigating a rare lichen, separately discover that it has a remarkable property: It slows the aging process almost to a halt. Trouble With Lichen is a scintillating story of the power wielded by. Wyndham was uniquely gifted at skewering humankind’s foibles while maintaining a shred of hope that our better angels would prevail.”-Kate Folk, from the introduction “It was a genius move for John Wyndham to center an age-slowing narrative on women, who are still today pressured to remain youthful-looking forever, or succumb to social invisibility. A “sharp, amusing story” ( The Guardian) about the fountain of youth and its implications for women’s rights, by one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant-and neglected-science fiction and horror writers, whom Stephen King called “the best writer of science fiction that England has ever produced.”
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