X-Message-Number: 19050 From: "Lee Corbin" <> Subject: Why SF Writers Don't Sign Up Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 11:41:35 -0700 Thomas Donaldson, in #19038, wrote > Heinlein did not want to be suspended. Asimov did not want to be > suspended. Vance (still alive, though getting old) does not want to > be suspended. > > I have thought about the problem you raise, and the best I can come > to is that despite imagining their fantastic future FOR OTHERS, > these people themselves never really believed such events were > possible in the REAL WORLD. Asimov admitted that he believed that cryonics would work, or so I've heard. My own theory is that so long as cryonics is not mainstream---and so is therefore "weird"---famous people in general will shy away from it. It seems to me possible that fame itself is so seductive, that people would literally rather die than risk any harm to their reputations. Lee Corbin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19050