Spudboy100@aol.com writes:
> In a message dated 03/06/2000 8:45:44 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> mike@datamann.com writes:
>
> > I just read Charles Sheffield's novel _Tomorrow and Tomorrow_ this weekend.
> > All about cryonics,
> > uploading, and Omega Point theory. Good book.
> >
> > Mike Lorrey
> Yes, but does Sheffield, himself support cryonics, Omega Point etc..?
I don't know about the author, but the book portrays cryonics and the
OP favorably (although much of the story hinges on a cryonics mishap
and the OP is rather tame (!)).
Where I think the novel really works well is the descriptions of the
extreme spans of time and space one protagonist-version has to cross
after an unplanned jump across the universe. Also, it has some fun
ideas about borganisms composed of copies of a single original person.
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