I’m trying to find a young adult sci-fic novel. This might have only been an Australian publication, I am not sure. It is recent (only the last ten years or so), and I do not think it was a reprint, so it is a modern sci-fi novel. It is set in the future, but the only that seems significantly advanced is the medical technology; transport, space travel, all that is still the same as it is now.
In this world, the ageing process can be stopped, but it is irreversible, and renders one infertile. As a consequence, children are rare, and after often seen as a commodity. It has changed the social structures as well as the population demographic of the world. The story follows the life of a twelve year old kid. He is owned by a man who won the boy as a toddler in a card game. The boy is rented out from time to time to act like he is a child of couples who have taken the anti-ageing solution. They frequently have to move, because what they are doing is illegal, and because someone is after them. In the end of the story, it turns out to be the child’s true father.
This is all that I remember. Thank you for helping.
In this world, the ageing process can be stopped, but it is irreversible, and renders one infertile. As a consequence, children are rare, and after often seen as a commodity. It has changed the social structures as well as the population demographic of the world. The story follows the life of a twelve year old kid. He is owned by a man who won the boy as a toddler in a card game. The boy is rented out from time to time to act like he is a child of couples who have taken the anti-ageing solution. They frequently have to move, because what they are doing is illegal, and because someone is after them. In the end of the story, it turns out to be the child’s true father.
This is all that I remember. Thank you for helping.