Reviews for Cheating Time: Science, Sex and Aging - Roger G. Gosden - Hardcover

The average rating for Cheating Time: Science, Sex and Aging - Roger G. Gosden - Hardcover based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-03-04 00:00:00 Joe Cool August 2016. Everyone that grows old should read this book. A discussion of the aging process and how it is influenced by the sex hormones and how it differs between the sexes. One focus is on extending life, but describes many of the aging process on a cellular and organ level and how the chemistry of the body changes. There is a limit to how long humans can live no matter what science can come up with. We were not genetically engineered for long life: procreation drives the survival-of-the-fittest evolution. Survival of the fittest is really survival of the best procreators. Long life is therefore not a favored heritable trait. But you can live your life in a better manner to get what you can out of your body, unless you have a gene defect. Interesting and an easy read.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-01-21 00:00:00 JOACHIM MKENDA This 24th volume of Asimov & Greenberg's best-of-the-year picks is for the year 1962. I got the feeling that by this time Asimov was less familiar with (and less enthusiastic about) the stories, and perhaps the field in general, than he had been in the golden-age era. Theodore Sturgeon is the only writer in this volume that I would also consider a major writer of that era, and his story here is a good one. My other favorites included in this volume are Fritz Leiber, Mack Reynolds, and James White, though I didn't think any of them were particularly weak. Overall, my pick for the best of the book is Cordwainer Smith's classic "The Ballad of Lost C'Mell."