“"We're very close to immortal, you know. The time mechanism keeps it that way."
"No, I hadn't known," said Boone.
"Inside the time bubble we do not age. We age only when we are outside of it."”

—  Clifford D. Simak, Highway of Eternity

Highway of Eternity (1986)

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