Synopsis: "A scientist discovers a fluid which represents Life Energy. Fortunately for us, he is an Englishman, and laws are passed which make it illegal for any but healthy and non-criminal Britons and their wives to be rendered immortal. Immortality, however, as the author amusingly shows, can have its drawbacks. ..." --the first half of a review in "The Literary Log Rolled by Ralph Straus", The Bystander 1912-12-11 p608 "... partly set in the Near Future, and partly some decades hence, where the negative implications of progress in Medicine – including an Immortality Drug called Zoedotes, which the rich have kept to themselves – are made clear." (underscore represents linked cross-reference) --SFE3, biographical entry by John Clute