title: Eternity: Our Next Billion Years (Macmillan Science)
author: M. Hanlon
description: MICHAEL HANLON is one of Britain's most successful science writers. He has been Science Editor at the <em>Daily Mail</em> for many years; prior to this he was at the <em>Daily Express</em>, the <em>Independent</em> and <em>Irish News</em>. He contributes regularly to magazines such as the Spectator, New Scientist Standpoint and appears on TV and radio as a science pundit. He has headlined several science festivals and written four critically acclaimed popular science books before this one: <em>Ten Questions Science Can't Answer (Yet)</em> (Macmillan 2007), <em>The Science Of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy</em> (Macmillan, 2005), <em>The Real Mars</em> (Constable, 2004) and <em>The Worlds of Galileo</em> (Constable, 2001)
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  Until Death
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Book 12 of The Lazarus Codex_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  2nd Edition
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Scientists agree that the sun will swallow the Earth in about five billion
  years. That means there’ll be at least five billion more years of Christmas
  music, which felt like five billion years too many to me. If I had to listen
  to George Michael sing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _Last Christmas_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  one more time, I r