There Was A Nover Published In The 60S, I Think, 'the Trouble With Lichen', Which Dealt With...

[sandyRoe]

...the problems of immortality. Could this Russian scientist have stirred up a similar hornets nest?

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/01/russian-scientist-injects-himself-with-3-5-million-year-old-bacteria-in-quest-for-immortality-_n_8224992.html?utm_hp_ref=uk-tech&;ir=UK%20Tech&ref=yfp

[sandyRoe]

A nover typo. I think I need new glasses. Should have been 'a novel published'.

[Tilly2]

John Wyndam. I read that at school.

[sandyRoe]

All I remember of it now are a couple of paragraphs where undertakers complained about the prospective loss of trade.

[Tilly2]

Wyndham!

[Tilly2]

I can't remember any of it. We also read The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids, The Kraken Wakes and The Day of the Triffids.

[Tilly2]

Sorry, sandy. I am not answering your question.

Who would want to be immortal?

[aelmpvw]

The Russian scientist claims that injecting himself with bacteria has prevented him from getting the flu for two years. Perhaps he'd like to study me, I haven't had it for sixty five years.

[Peter Pedant]

// I can't remember any of it. We also read The Midwich Cuckoos, The Chrysalids, The Kraken Wakes and The Day of the Triffids. //
64yup good 1960s SF

actually the kraken wakes was a given textbook at skool -sep 64

n the films

the trouble with Trouble with LIchen is that the heroine kinda turned political at tne end

and nothing else happened

[ they injected lichen products and it slowed metabolism and so ergo you lived longer

[jourdain2]

I have a copy of the book, along with several other John Wyndhams - I recently re-read The Kraken Wakes and found it wore very well. I then bought The Chrysallids, which I hadn't read, and that was excellent. I remember 'Trouble with lichen' as enjoyably lightweight but thought-provoking reading. The bit that stays in my mind is where you have to stop the anti-ageing tratment because 'you don't want to gestate like an elephant'!