Holy Fire

In the late twenty-first century, technology has extended human lifespans far beyond what was once medically possible, making existence relatively easy but monotonous. Ninety-four-year-old Mia Ziemann undergoes a radical new treatment that restores her body and mind to that of a twenty-year-old. After her transformation, she finds herself navigating an avant-garde world of passion, designer drugs, and creative expression. The novel explores themes of memory, morality, and immortality through Mia's experience. It examines art, artifice, the pursuit of immortality, and the nature of youth and aging through its characters and their conversations. The story also considers contrasting cultures and those unable to become post-human in Sterling's plausible and provocative vision of the near future.