In the not distant future the world hasn't changed so much - men and women still fall in love, laugh, and sip wine - but some have changed, some will live forever as retreads, old souls implanted surgically in the empty bodies of the young.

Voss Geraghty is a retread, a retiring government researcher who has been rewarded with a new body. What he wants out of his new life is fun, sex, and adventure, what he finds is disappointment.

But there's a growing radical underground that sees the inequity in a society that allows the young to die so that the old may live on...

Alicia II is the undisputed science fiction masterpiece by Robert Thurston (* 28. Oktober 1936 in Lockport, New York; + 20. Oktober 2021 in Ridgefield Park, New Jersey) and was first published in 1978; Apex is publishing a new edition of this classic novel in its ENGLISH SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS series.