F026@cpc865.east-anglia.ac.UK (04/18/89)
> PS - I've never read of this "cryonic tank" mode of transport in SF, but I > imagine someone has thought of it before. References anyone? > [I seem to remember there was some story by Poul Anderson I read > years and years ago. I won't even hazard a guess at the title. > Anybody recognize it? > --JoSH] Sounds a lot like Simak's "Way Station" to me. He was a little more basic, prefering acid vats to cryonic tanks! Mike. * Mike Salmon, Phone +44 603 56161 x2875 Time BST (GMT+1) * * Climatic Research Unit, JANET m.salmon@uea.cpc865 UUCP _not_ via UKC * * University of East Anglia, BITNET f026@cpc865.uea.ac.uk BIX msalmon * * Norwich, Norfolk, ARPA f026%cpc865.uea.ac.uk@cunyvm.cuny.edu * * United Kingdom Elsewhere f026%cpc865.uea@ukacrl.bitnet * * - - - - "How far can you comfortably spit a mail gateway?" - - - - *
bugboy@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Frank) (04/22/89)
>> PS - I've never read of this "cryonic tank" mode of transport in SF, but I >> imagine someone has thought of it before. References anyone? > >> [I seem to remember there was some story by Poul Anderson I read >> years and years ago. I won't even hazard a guess at the title. >> Anybody recognize it? >> --JoSH] >Sounds a lot like Simak's "Way Station" to me. He was a little more basic, >prefering acid vats to cryonic tanks! > >Mike. In Piers Anthony's book _Macroscope_, a method of transportation through black holes is used where the people get into a vat where they are dissolved into raw materials (which are able to survive the intense G-forces at the hole), and then reassembled after the trip thru the wormhole. Mike. (A different one.) -- Michael Frank "The Ear-God" AI:Amiga:Fencing:Swimming:Star Trek:Pink Floyd bugboy@portia.stanford.edu Nanotechnology:Microsoft:TN:FL:MA ...and more Box 6536, Stanford CA 94309 "I will always be here / I will always look out (415) EAR-0-GOD "I listen." from behind these eyes" - the Floyd, aMLoR, '87