SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.Berkeley.EDU (10/06/85)
From: Stephen Balzac <SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.Berkeley.EDU> For those who have never read Van Vogt's Null-A books, this may be a bit of a spoiler, but for those who have, Gilbert Gosseyn is killed early in the first book, but wakes up apparently in perfect health, on Venus. He remembers everything that happened to him up to the moment of his "death" and eventually concludes that he is the same person. Actually, all his memories were instantly transported into an exact copy of his body at the moment of his death. Effectively, however he is the same...