X-Message-Number: 5685
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 14:49:50 -0500
From:  (Ralph Dratman)
Subject: Novel about cryonics

Has everyone here read Linda Nagata's new (December '95) novel,
Tech-Heaven? It's based on the premise of cryonics from start to finish.
The plot is more or less a (significant) elaboration of the little tale
"Resuscitation: A Speculative Scenario for Recovery" in Chapter 5 of the
Alcor book Cryonics: Reaching for Tomorrow.

Nagata's novel (Bantam, paperback, 357 pp., US$4.99) even has a splay of
red feathers on the cover, next to a blue-frozen hand, that's very
suggestive of the Alcor logo.

The story, while perhaps not too realistic by cryonicists' standards,
certainly got me interested in the topic -- in fact, that's what spurred me
to join this mailing list.

So maybe cryonics is going mainstream, eh, cryo-boys and -girls? Are you
ready to handle a surge of science-fiction readers among your ranks?


Ralph Dratman



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