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"One could imagine a very ascetic sort of life ... where the body is ignored. This is something I've played with in my books, where people hate to be reminded sometimes that they have bodies, they find it very slow and tedious."
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![]() This is the first description of this process that I know about, in a novel anyway.
Compare to cosmic express from the 1930 short story of that name by Jack Williamson, the nutrient gelatin tank from The Isotope Men (1936) by Nat Schachner and the emergency treatment tank from Agent of Vega (1949) by James Schmitz. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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