X-Message-Number: 25368 Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:43:07 -0500 From: Thomas Donaldson <> Subject: CryoNet #25363 - #25367 A bit more for Bob Ettinger about the story TRAVELLING, in my fiction book TALES OF SKASTOWE: Reading the story, you see Tupac Amaru meeting various people. All of them are thousands of years old, and all of them share one trait that we certainly don't have (perhaps because we're all too young). They've all totally forgotten their childhood. Tupac Amaru notes that they have their own kind of oblivion, very different from ko'itsa (his people's word for death). And so in that respect he's like them too... What he decides, at least. So TRAVELLING says even more about "death" than I said in my first message about it... TALES OF SKASTOWE tells of one society of immortal people, especially their problems, but not negatively at all. Immortality isn't one of their problems, either --- but as human beings they will still have problems, and that's what the stories are about. Right now PHYSICAL IMMORTALITY is printing the stories in sequence, which is probably how Bob Ettinger read TRAVELLING. I am selling the whole book for US $20 if you want it for yourself --- price includes postage to the US. Best wishes and long long life for all, Thomas Donaldson Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=25368