Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Man Who Grew Young | 2001 | Daniel Quinn | Buy |
The Man Who Grew Young began as a prose narrative, was reworked into a screenplay, and finally became a full-color graphic novel illustrated by Tim Eldred. Quinn spent years developing the project before its publication in 2001. The premise is simple but strange: the universe has reversed course, and everything that ever lived and died now lives again, but backward.
In this world, people are unearthed from graves and brought to hospitals where they wake into life as adults. They grow younger over time, driven by fate to reunite with their mothers. Adam Taylor, the main character, uses this backward flow of history to search for his own mother. The result is part science fiction, part philosophical fable, told in a visual format that gave Quinn’s ideas an entirely different kind of expression than his novels.