X-Message-Number: 19054 Date: Sun, 12 May 2002 21:11:34 -0700 From: Pat Clancy <> Subject: Re: science fiction References: <> Charles Platt wrote: > As for Bruce Pelz and Forrest Ackerman: I knew both of them slightly, and > I am sad that neither of them was interested in seeing the future. But > this kind of thing doesn't surprise me anymore. Greg Bear wrote a lovely > little novel about cryonics, titled "Heads." A. A. Attanasio wrote a > cryonics novel titled "Solis," which features a resuscitated head named > "Mr. Charlie." (Guess where he came up with THAT name!) But so far as I > know, only one science-fiction writer, other than myself, has ever made > cryonics arrangements. We have had much better luck selling cryonics to > computer programmers than to science-fiction writers. > > This is not apropos your point really, but I just wanted to mention another sf novel "about" cryonics (in an across-all-time-and-space sort of way), _Tomorrow and Tomorrow_ by Charles Sheffield. Anyone that's interested in both sf and cryonics should read it. I have no idea what Mr. Sheffield's personal feelings are on the subject. Pat Clancy Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=19054