X-Message-Number: 1752 Date: 15 Feb 93 23:51:57 EST From: Charles Platt <> Subject: CRYONICS Science Fiction in SF To: Cryonet February 15, 1993 Re Ben Best's suggestion that we should have some sort of presence in San Francisco at the World Science Fiction Convention: First, please remember the DISMAL experience that Brenda Peters had at similar event. I've dealt with science fictionoids all my life, and in my experience, most of them are only interested in fiction. For this reason, I am doubtful about renting a room or a table to give our literature. However, there is absolutely no cost associated with running a program item, so I think Ben is onto a good idea, here. I suggest that rather than bring immortality into it, we should title the panel something like, "Visit the Future via Cryonics." I have been reading the essays submitted for the Omni contest, and about half of them mention that the writer always wanted to see the future; hence is interested in cryonics. I found the same thing in responses to the small survey that I ran in Cryonics magazine. And I certainly feel this myself, as a science-fiction reader. Thus, I suggest that "see the future" is the closest thing to a concept with universal appeal in the science-fiction community. How about it, Ben? --Charles Platt Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=1752