The Methuselah Project by Jim NelsonA once-in-a-lifetime offer of the impossible turns into a deadly moral dilemma in The Methuselah Project by Jim Nelson. Professor Lindstrom, a morally conflicted academic and a passionate insect-lover, finds himself caught in the conspiratorial web of an immortality-seeking billionaire when he infiltrates a strangely long-lived tribe in Papua New Guinea. Boasting quick-shot chapters and vividly depicted characters, the story rockets ahead after its brutal opening, edging readers into the suspenseful grip of Nelson’s well-drawn prose. Fanciful as the story may be, the novel poses essential questions about progress and ethics in a time when the veil between science and fiction feels thinner every day.