Quote Originally Posted by Rater202 View Post
I don't understand the reference.
Why does nobody get my classic SF references?

Heinlein, bunch of long lived families who gained longevity via carefully planned marriages. After a couple of hundred years it becomes harder for them to hide their longevity due to living about twice as long as a normal person, so they arrange to have a controlled reveal. Unfortunately the majority of humanity gets understandably jealous, decides they must be hiding stone kind of secret life extension technique, and they end up being tortured for the technique and on the road to worse fates until the main character manages to pull together a plan to steal a generation ship and leave Earth for unsettled space.