From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Thu Jul 11 2002 - 23:34:48 MDT
At 10:35 AM 7/11/02 -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
>The first story where I noticed uploading as a major theme of the story
was "The Eden Cycle", I don't remember the author, it was from the mid-60's
to early 70's.
Raymond Z(inke) Gallun, who died in 1994 aged 83. One of the early and
rather clunky `modern' sf writers, starting (I gather) in 1929 and later a
habitue of such venues as Thrilling Wonder Stories (any wonder, speaking of
which, that grown-ups mostly didn't read this stuff?). I assumed `The Eden
Cycle' (Ballantine, 1974) was a `fix-up' of much earlier short stories, but
the invaluable John Clute says:
`a carefully written, slow-moving story of humans who, having received from
aliens the gift of IMMORTALITY and a capacity to reinhabit
imaginatively-through a kind of VIRTUAL REALITY--various epochs of world
history... find themselves less and less capable of responding to their
experiences' (ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SCIENCE FICTION).
Damien Broderick
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