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description: Seven issues of short stories published during the late 1980's over three and one half years two decades before the readership for them even existed. Here are stories about what happened in cryonics and uploading once the techniques of nanotechnology reached a point where self-replicating machines could do things that still today lie in the future but not so far as one might think.These stories range in content from the most elementary visions of cryonics and how people of ordinary backgrounds respond emotionally to it to highly sophisticated ways in which a mature molecular manufacturing industry might interact with uploading warfare and other relevant aspects of such a development. One fantastic advance that has emerged since these stories were written is the idea of a singularity and all of the development that has gone toward foreseeing the legal ethical and psychological implications of that as addressed by The Terasem Movement Inc.LifeQuest currently is available through Create Space and Amazon in hard copy. Author Bio edited for inclusion in the introductory section is as follows:We (Fred and Linda Chamberlain) have more connections with cryonics than simply as authors of the majority of the stories you find here. We met as coworkers on a committee to host the 3rd Annual Conference on Cryonics in Los Angeles (May 1970). Later we founded the Alcor Society for Solid State Hypothermia (now known as the Alcor Life Extension Foundation) and published the first detailed procedures manual for carrying out cryonic suspensions (Manrise Corporations Instructions for the Induction of Solid State Hypothermia In Humans  1972). Supporting that we also developed a system of equipment to be used in cryonic suspensions (the Modular Perfusion Apparatus) helped Trans Time Inc. to organize and later merged Manrise Corporation with it.At Lake Tahoe California during the 1980s we hosted a series of Lake Tahoe Life Extension Festivals that were nationally attended and provided an opportunity for technical presentations by cryonics people and others. Eric Drexler PhD was one of our speakers just before Engines of Creation was published. Thats the period during which we wrote and published LifeQuest stories. Along the way we managed to place two of our parents into cryonic suspension. Freds dad in 1976 was the first cryonics patient to be suspended by neuropreservation. Lindas mom in 1990 received the highest biological-viability suspension up to that time. Theres a more complete personal cryonics history posted in Wikipedia by Ben Best President of the Cryonics Institute (thats our suspension organization now; a complex set of circumstances caused us to part ways with Alcor in 2001).As for our non-cryonics backgrounds we might mention that Fred was a Senior Engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for over a decade. Linda was also with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a number of years and was the Space Astrophysics Teams Admininstrative Assistant at the time active volcanoes were discovered on Io (one of Jupiters moons) during the Voyager Mission. Linda (before she and Fred got together) had taken up refuge in a remote canyon in Idaho building a cabin there to escape a society that seemed to have little interest in either philosophy or life extension. Fred earlier spent five years in the U.S. Navy as a diving explosive ordnance disposal and nuclear weapons disposal officer.
language: English
title: LifeQuest
publisher: Create Space