X-Message-Number: 1756
Date: 16 Feb 93 23:39:17 EST
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: CRYONICS Science Fiction

To: Cryonet

Just for the record, I will be at the science fiction convention in
San Francisco, and very happy to help Lola or Ben or anyone else who
wants to promote cryonics there. My previous rather hasty message did
not make this clear. If Lola can raise the money to host a room at the
convention, I think that's great; I just hope she doesn't expect TOO
much to come of it. As for a panel, I can suggest writers whom I know
personally who have expressed strong interest in cryonics: Joe Haldeman
(well informed but still reluctant to commit himself), Greg Bear (author
of HEADS, the only contemporary cryonics novel that I am aware of), and
Gregory Benford (who recently proposed freezing endangered species from
South American rain forests but might want to keep professional distance
from cryonics itself). Also as a sometime author of science fiction I
would of course be willing to be on a panel myself, and could talk about
the nonfiction cryonics book which I am (still) writing, and the Omni
contest, if anyone remembers it by that time.

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