About the Book: In The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life, journalist-academic Aleks Krotoski traces humanity’s timeless pursuit of immortality from the epic of Epic of Gilgamesh to the alchemy of the philosopher’s stone — and then reveals how today’s tech moguls are engineering a “fountain of youth” they not only build, but seek to own. She explores the arms race of longevity research, the dawn of life-extension industries and the shift of these experiments from fringe labs into government corridors. Along the way she meets transhumanists, biohackers, and billionaires bent on redesigning human life itself — and asks whether we really want a handful of Silicon Valley power-brokers to become the architects of our forever.