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Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 22:01:07 EDT
Subject: Yet more on Sci-Fi and Science Authors, Sagan, Clarke , and Vinge

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Hello, Dear Cryoneters,

I have been following the Sci-Fi Author thread with interest.  Many long term 
lurkers and readers will recognize this as one of the many perineal "oldie 
but goody" themes on cryonet.

My personal favorites for suspension are rather obvious, and perhaps shared 
by many on this list.

My first choice is permanently and probably irretrievably dead.  Carl Sagan 
arguably did more for acceptance of science, rationality, and skepticism than 
perhaps anyone.

And, while filming the movie "Cosmos" (I believe, I could be wrong on time 
frame) he was dying of cancer.  I do not know if he was ever approached with 
the cryonics option.  But he was on a list I sent to Linda and Fred 
Chamberlain of people they (kinda, provisionally, and with a few weasel 
words) would have suspended for free for the publicity.

Still alive and very active, and still writing books about cryonic 
suspension, is Arthur C. Clarke.  (Question on spelling of last name...I 
think it has an e.)

But this author of Childhood's End, 2001, 2010, and a lot of books with 
cryonics as an assumed technology is not signed up.

Charles, may I ask what you know of Clarke?  He remains influential and 
prolific, although he must be in his 80s.

And how about Vernor Vinge?  I just today finished, "A Deepness in the Sky."  


Absolutely fabulous book.  Many of my extropian and cryonics buddies have 
told me how great Vinge's writing is, but this is my first book of his.  He 
teaches at a California college.  Does anybody on this list know him?

We must continue our offering and "promotion" of cryonics to Sci-Fi and 
Science authors.  Just because we have not "netted" a bunch at this point 
does not mean that this "market" is not penetrable.  We all know there are 
many other reasons, rational and irrational, that people provide for signing 
or not signing for cryonics.   

I am talking with a good friend and client of mine about cryonics.  A well 
read, erudite, atheistic, intellectual retired educator, Howard is 74.  He 
may be uninsurable, but he could easily afford the cash for a 50,000 neuro or 
even a 120,000 whole body suspension. 

I will keep this list apprised of progress with Howard.  Here is a man who 
believes in NO afterlife.  He is adventuresome, creative, iconoclastic, 
semi-wealthy, has no family concerns that would be deal-killers.  He knows me 
as a friend and fellow religious skeptic for perhaps ten years, and I still 
can't get him to look at cryonics seriously.  

Someday, we may look back on the slow signups with the easy answers of 
hindsight.  We know all problems are hard before they are easy.  (Sorry if I 
sound like George Smith here...he *does* occasionally make some good points.)

Let's get some additional authors!

Rudi 





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