The Future Loves You

Dear future, we love you too. This book elegantly handles the why and how of ending death, with engagingly described specific details and compelling responses to standard concerns about overpopulation, social stagnation, and unnaturalness. This thorough dive into the "why" truly primes us for the "how", which also delivers the goods

Professor George Church, Harvard Medical School & MIT

Everything that makes you mentally unique is encoded in the structural and molecular details of your brain’s connectome. To map animal connectomes, neuroscientists have developed incredibly effective preservation methods. The emerging science of brain preservation seeks to adapt these methods to preserve human brains for centuries-long storage. This brilliantly written book provides the first comprehensive overview of what brain preservation is, how it could be used to stop people from dying, and how it could be made to work verifiably and at scale. As a neuroscientist who has been working in this field for decades, I am delighted that Zeleznikow-Johnston has produced a work that is scientifically rigorous while being simultaneously extremely accessible for all readers, whatever their background

Dr Ken Hayworth, Senior Scientist at Howard Hughes Medical Institute

With this highly readable and informative book, Zeleznikow-Johnston provides a valuable addition to the general-audience literature on medical research to extend life. Leveraging his neuroscience background, he eloquently describes and promotes the novel and rapidly-advancing concept of vitrifixation, while also expertly placing it in its societal and philosophical context

Aubrey de Grey, longevity pioneer

In an era of unrivaled change we must heed dangers and warnings, but not be gloomists. Millions have striven – and still strive – for a better life, for all. So … why not more life, as well? Every yin comes with yang, but this appeal for love-driven life extension adds plenty of fact and passion to the fiction

David Brin, author of The Postman and Existence

Zeleznikow-Johnston’s enthusiasm is intoxicating

Simon Ings, Best Science Books of 2024, The Telegraph

this book will change the way you think about death

Andrew Steele, author of Ageless

an engaging description of modern brain science

Steven Poole, The Telegraph

This is an optimistic book ... What makes it an extraordinarily interesting book are the four chapters on the nature of death, identity, consciousness and memory. They are richly informed and full of fascinating detail

James McConnachie, The Times

in an instant, what was once believed impossible can become just another fact of life

Michael Segalov, Observer

kicks off a debate of massive importance… a book that changes (your) entire idea of morality and what science is capable of

Daniel Keane, London Evening Standard