X-Message-Number: 9025 From: "Halperin, Jim" <> Subject: RE: CryoNet #9018, 9019, 9021 and 9023 Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 08:39:24 -0600 This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ------ =_NextPart_000_01BD23EC.949C09B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For their wonderful comments about The First Immortal posted on Sunday's Cryonet, I wish to thank Fred Chamberlain, Richard Zagorski and my friend John K. Clark, who, along with quite a few other members of the Cryonet community, graciously contributed his own terrific ideas and insight to the book. I also appreciate Edgar Swank's announcement that ACS is offering The First Immortal (alongside Linda Nagata's brilliant novel, Tech Heaven) on their Web site. Finally, I feel flattered that Robert Ettinger, who by the way also made a great contribution to The First Immortal, would recommend me as a potential fund-raising leader for whatever research organization that might follow the path blazed by Paul Wafker. I only wish I had the time to do it. Unfortunately I have a business to run, a novel to promote, other novels to edit and rewrite, and a family that likes to see me occasionally. However, rest assured that brain preservation research is a cause to which I remain committed, and to which I intent to contribute financially if not through sweat equity. I have been interested in health education since my early twenties (I'm 45), and currently endow a health education foundation in Dallas. One of my original goals in writing The First Immortal was to help people understand what the immortalist movement was really about, and to paint the most realistic possible picture of its potential and its weaknesses. When I began researching TFI, I was not yet a cryonicist myself, and wasn't quite sure whether cryonics was a realistic idea. It was during the course of research that I became convinced of its logic, and decided to join Alcor. While I will not be able to offer my services in any management capacity, I do intend to continue contributing financially to cryonics. In fact, I have publicly stated that I will be donating ALL my book royalties from The First Immortal, after expenses, to various health- and education-related causes, including cryonics organizations. I really appreciate the support of the cryonics community, and I hope above all that The First Immortal will prove helpful in attracting new adherents to the movement. Warmest regards to all, Jim Halperin Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=9025