Welcome to the Lifespinners website, a spin-off from my near-future novel of the same name. The book is set in 2048 within the well-protected, apparently serene community of Wellowfern, where the older residents are offered life enrichment and the latest treatments and therapies to promote longevity and rejuvenation. They have all escaped from their past, in one way or another, and don’t want any disturbing reminders or nasty complications. Change is coming, however, and they face insidious and powerful forces battling over their future.
As an author and a former social researcher working in the field of housing and care, I am fascinated by the question of how future scientific and technological advances are set to change our physical bodies and mental capacities, our close relationships and social environments and our experience of the wider world, on Earth and beyond. With this website, I am aiming to provide an up-to-date overview of key research areas and topics that are now driving these changes, and to encourage informed and lively discussion and debate about their effects and implications, both positive and negative. The consistent running theme is the exciting, intriguing and sometimes disturbing idea of Human Reshaping.
In developing my ideas for storylines, setting and characters, I have drawn on an amazing range of excellent sources, including new non-fiction books and a continuing stream of published articles. These have been inspiring and I want to express my very sincere thanks to the academic experts, science journalists, editors, thinkers and innovators who can write so clearly and engagingly about their own areas of interest. My overview pieces can be found in the dropdown list under ‘Themes‘.
Lynn Watson
Contact: lynn48@lifespinners.com
Website design: Jay D Stow
Edited January 2026
