In this issue:
Interview with Richard Brodie
New Journal of Memetics issue
Book Review: The First Immortal by James L. Halperin
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Interview with Richard Brodie
There is now RealAudio interview with me available on the web for your
listening pleasure. You will need the RealAudio player, available for free
download from http://www.real.com
Once you have the player installed, go to
http://www.realvoices.com/ss/audio3files/hta05/hta05.ram to hear the
interview.
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New Journal of Memetics Issue
For hard-core memeticists, the new issue of the on-line Journal of Memetics
is now available. See what progress is being made in the academic world in
understanding memes. Go to
http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/jom-emit/1997/vol1/index.html#issue2
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Book Review
The First Immortal
by James L. Halperin
You can tell right away that James L. Halperin's second novel is a winner if
you flip to the back and see "Virus of the Mind" in his list of recommended
reading. Any believable account of the future must be based on a solid
understanding of what makes ideas spread. In this, Halperin succeeds.
The First Immortal is a shockingly believable account of a future in which
people live essentially forever, thanks to cryonics (freezing one's body)
and nanotechnology. As the likelihood of resuscitation from freezing grows,
the idea of preserving one's body in hopes of eventual revival becomes less
and less loony. I finished this book seriously thinking about getting myself
frozen.
Halperin's writing has matured and you'll find The First Immortal as
fast-paced as his first novel The Truth Machine but with considerably richer
characters. An unapologetic optimist, he paints a scintillating utopian
picture of the future - perhaps enough to launch the cryonics meme into full
orbit.
You can order The First Immortal through the Amazon.com Memetics bookstore,
http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/books.htm or by going directly to
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0345420926/memecentralA/
All the best memes,
Richard Brodie
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