From: Max More (maxmore@primenet.com)
Date: Sat Jan 17 1998 - 17:17:13 MST
At 12:30 AM 1/18/98 +0100, you wrote:
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>
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>John K Clark <johnkc@well.com> wrote:
>
>> I want to join the chorus of praise I've been hearing for Jim Halperin's
new
>> novel "The First Immortal", if it becomes a best seller it could end up
>> changing the world as much as "Uncle Tom's Cabin" or "The Origin of
Species.
>> The great thing is that he describes achieving physical immortality in the
>> near future but rebels against the stale convention of crying copious tears
>> over how dreadful a world without death would be. Halperin will probably
take
>> some flack from death worshipers for not sprinkling in stuff about Man
>> meddling in God's domain and other pious platitudes throughout his book,
it
>> seems to be the custom when discussing such matters, but Jim is just too
>> original for that and he refuses to pander to the superstitions of the
masses.
>> This is an important book and I highly recommend it.
>
>The inevitable question arises: is this dude a cryonicist himself, and if
not, why?
>
>DdO
Jim is (publically) a cryonicist (Alcor) and a member of Extropy Institute.
Max
Max More, Ph.D.
more@extropy.org
http://www.primenet.com/~maxmore
President, Extropy Institute: exi-info@extropy.org, http://www.extropy.org
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