The Voice of Reason

A Quarter Century of Fighting Aging

By: Reason

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Aging is damage. Damage is repairable. Get to work.

For nearly a quarter century, a writer known only as Reason said this almost every day - to a world that mostly wasn't listening.

He said it when curing aging was a punchline. He said it as the science caught up, the first companies formed, and the money and the clinical trials arrived. He built, without quite meaning to, the most complete record we have of a scientific field being willed into existence - and then, in 2018, he stopped writing about other people's companies and founded his own.

The Voice of Reason gathers sixty-nine of his best pieces: the science of why we age and how we might not; a blistering quarrel with everyone who calls death a gift; the politics of which cures get made; his own self-experiments with biohacking; and, beneath it all, an unblinking reckoning with mortality - his readers', and his own.

He is clear, he is blunt, he is often very funny, and he is angrier than you expect about the hundred thousand people who die of aging every day. He is also, it turns out, a man whose quarter-century forecast is coming true.