ageless bodies, with (almost) all of time to live.

Science advances the body's potential, so that almost nothing natural happens any more. This story focuses on the grisly math of the concept, and what that means about population, birth, and death. (More or less, the story takes place in a maternity ward.) Also, an odd sort of conservationist idealism that seems somehow suspicious.

Similar themes to Down And Out In The Magic Kingdom (on DailyLit), and Scott Westerfeld's Uglies series.

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