Eye-opening, entertaining and disturbing [ A] highly readable and meticulously researched book Krotoski's goal is to open peoples eyes to what is going on so they can make up their own minds. She does it brilliantly -- Graham Lawton * New Scientist * A fascinating, deeply reported adventure among the increasingly influential figures who believe they can defeat death and a warning not to let dreams of tech-enabled immortality stop us building a more vibrant human world here and now -- Oliver Burkeman An elegant, gripping expedition into the technological apotheosis of an ancient dream. Can technology gift us immortality? In Krotoski's hands, this question is neither a promise nor a warning, but a meditation on what truly matters -- Tom Chatfield Brilliant, painstakingly researched and altogether a wonderful read, Aleks Krotoski serves up an essential parable for our digital times -- Kevin Fong Aleks Krotoski, an award-winning broadcaster, academic, and technology reporter, has cast her eye over living for ever Krotoskis riveting book ends with a poignant account of the deaths of her father and stepmother. While the immortalists resist death, it will come to us all. The only thing we can try to control is how we face it -- Roger Alton * Daily Mail * Fascinating The new titans of tech wish to be as immortal as the Titans of legend. The award-wining journalist Aleks Krotoski wryly documents their antics in her new book The Immortalists An entertaining and insightful account of those who believe the end of ageing is within our grasp -- Stephen Cave * Financial Times * Life extensionists like Bryan Johnson want to live forever. But at what cost? Aleks Krotoski, a psychologist and veteran chronicler of the tech industry, is well positioned to investigate and explain the phenomenon as well as its social consequences -- James Ball * Guardian * Aleks Krotoskis fascinating new book penetrates deep into the heart of the Silicon Valley it rises above the wellness rituals themselves and looks squarely at the metaphysics that animates them: the conviction that the human is decomposable into variables that computation and chemistry can optimise. The author's reporting around that conviction its origins in grief and fear, its transmutation into a public liturgy of confidence is utterly compelling -- Justin Smith-Ruiu * New Statesman *
