Waiting on Wednesday – Everything Belongs to the Future

Waiting on Wednesday is a meme hosted by Breaking the Spine to let us share our excitement for books coming out soon.

Everyone wants to live for ever, and there is always a disparity between rich and poor. I find this ability of the people with means to live forever, while others are limited to a natural lifespan pretty interesting. Definitely look forward to checking it out!

Everything Belongs to the Future by Laurie Penny
Published by Tor.com on October 18th 2016
Pages: 128

   

Time is a weapon wielded by the rich, who have excess of it, against the rest, who must trade every breath of it against the promise of another day’s food and shelter. What kind of world have we made, where human beings can live centuries if only they can afford the fix? What kind of creatures have we become? The same as we always were, but keener.
In the ancient heart of Oxford University, the ultra-rich celebrate their vastly extended lifespans. But a few surprises are in store for them. From Nina and Alex, Margo and Fidget, scruffy anarchists sharing living space with an ever-shifting cast of crusty punks and lost kids. And also from the scientist who invented the longevity treatment in the first place.
Everything Belongs to the Future is a bloody-minded tale of time, betrayal, desperation, and hope that could only have been told by the inimitable Laurie Penny.