X-Message-Number: 16941
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 05:45:45 -0400 (EDT)
From: Charles Platt <>
Subject: a "new" book

David Johnson very kindly mentions that I have a new book in print. This
is news to me, because I haven't seen it; but I assume it must be the
hardcover edition of "Loose Canon" (deliberate misspelling), since this is
due around now.

I should warn CryoNet readers a) A lower cost paperback edition will be
out in September, b) only about 5 percent of the book deals with cryonics,
and c) the book is a collection of essays which appeared from around 1980
through 1995, in various publications, mostly dealing with science
fiction. There's not much new material.

More relevantly to CryoNet, I have an article upcoming in Discover
magazine (scheduled for the October issue, on sale at the beginning of
September) which will describe some of the work initiated by Mike Darwin
and Steve Harris at 21st Century Medicine before it spawned Critical Care
Research. I hope to write more on similar themes, such as organ
vitrification, but must respect the wishes of scientists who usually
prefer to have their results published in an academic journal before a
popular science writer starts circulating simplified summaries in the mass
media.

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