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Note to Self: An Education by Mark Lingane (view source)

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In Kry's world, the discovery that human cells replace themselves every seven years results in a cascade of medical "advances": in 2030 it's found that radiation can return cells back to their regeneration state seven years before, in 2035 it's possible to cure cancerous tumours but with the side effect of erasing seven years of memory, by 2045 the cosmetics industry is using the same technique to "de-age" their customers by seven years. In a society obsessed with image and youth, who needs memories?
Kry wakes up after his procedure in After a shinyyouth-restoring reset, sterile medical centre with Kry only a knows what the short note from his 7-Up self to tell him whatKry's happenedearlier self has revealed: not much. He has no idea what he will find outside its doors. Confused, curious but above all ''hungry'', he ventures out. What he finds is confounding. People who stare at shards of glass in their hands and take endless images but who rarely speak, and when they do it's in a short, truncated dialect. Words in this time mean little, apparently. Clothes are minimal too - everybody wants to display their best assets, after all. More confusing still are the billboards and messages everywhere, coming from someone called the General Manager. Who is he?
Of course, Kry discovers there's a lot more to this strange world than endless selfies for credit. But I'll leave you to discover for yourself how this retelling of HG Wells's ''The Time Machine'' builds on its source material.
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