An Old Story
July, 2006
Margaret Atwood is author of The Handmaid's Tale, the classic 1985 novel about a dystopian world in which certain women are forced to produce babies for elite couples. Her latest book is The Tent.Immortality has been at the top of the human wish list for all our known history. As Bill McKibben says in his 2003 book Enough, "Eternal life has only been humanity's great dream since the moment we became conscious." One of the earliest recorded poems, the Epic of Gilgamesh, takes it as the...
