X-Message-Number: 9970
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 1998 10:23:51 -0500
From: Steve Jackson <>
Subject: No show for the Pohl vault

Charles Platt <> wrote:

>
>But a concept that is fun to play with can seem very different when you
>apply it to yourself in real life.

True enough . . .

>If we include James Halperin as a science-fiction writer

err, there's a question? Two hot-selling SF novels already. What is he,
chopped liver?

>we still have a total of just THREE science-fiction writers who have
>signed up for cryonics, so far as I know.

(Evil Stevie, long-time SFWA member, raises his hand.)

>Thus, the profession that you
>might imagine would be the most fertile ground for cryonicists has turned
>out to be quite disappointing.

Au contraire. The percentage of professional fabulists among suspension
members is much higher than that among the general population, even though
the total number is disappointing to you (and to me, too).


- SJ, who is at InConjunction this weekend, will appear on a cryonics panel
with Steve Bridge, and who WILL keep trying to get people to LOOK at the
option . . .




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