RE: Sci Fi covered it first? (Score 1)

Brian Stableford recently wrote a six book future history centered around human attempts at life extension. It takes 500 years to get it right with people in different times either assuming there will be life extension treatments awaiting them when they age or knowing that they are doomed to be the last generation of mortals. I've read the first three and I can't really do justice to it here, but they cover overpopulation , desperate space colonization attempts, and a Capitalist Cabal that ends up owning the world through stock market manipulation. One of the later books, Fountains of Youth is the 500 year diary of a emortal name Mortimer Gray. He is famous for writing a History of Death where he tries to understand the mindset of past mortal humans and the various ways they coped with knowledge of death.

The series consists of four entertaining books: The Cassandra Complex, Inherit the Earth, Architects of Emortality, and Dark Ararat. There are also two big idea books: Fountains of Youth and The Omega Expedition (you need to read these in order because FOY has a big suprise at the end).