'Immortality' neither sci-fi nor thriller Chicago Sun-Times (IL) | May 3, 2009| | Copyright (c) 2009 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

THE IMMORTALITY FACTOR

By Ben Bova

Tor, 480 pages, $25.95

Ben Bova is a prolific science-fiction author, but The Immortality Factor is not science fiction.

With a plot that involves researchers racing to regenerate human organs and limbs, the story is steeped in the ingredients of a political or medical thriller. But The Immortality Factor is not a thriller, either. There are no chases or plane crashes. Only one character's life is threatened, and that is a research lab chimpanzee.

If anything, The Immortality Factor is a long-winded version of the second-oldest story ever told, the ...

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