Damien,
I was thrilled to read that Arthur C. Clarke made a comment about you in the
latest edition of 'Profiles of the Future.' I bought that book last year at
the annual gun show in Alaska and got a huge kick out of it. I am lucky to
know a big shot like you! :) Congratulations!
sincerely,
John Grigg
From: Damien Broderick <d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au>
Subject: live forever!
I can't help passing along something a US pal sent me, from the latest
revision of Arthur C. Clarke's wonderful pop sci book PROFILES OF THE
FUTURE. I read it when I was a sprat, not long after it came out in 1961 or
thereabouts, and was utterly dazzled. You can imagine how chuffed I am to
hear that the 1999 revision contains this comment
pages 189-190:
(In *The Last Mortal Generation* (1999), the Australian polymath and science
fiction writer Damien Broderick has suggested that immortality is not
merely desirable--but inevitable. My recommendation of this truly
mind-stretching book was not in the least affected by its dedication: "For
Arthur C. Clarke, who profiled the future and dreamed of advanced sciences
indistinguishable from magic.")
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