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Well the energy lives on, and so forth, one hopes.
The thing that most impressed me, I think, in any of his novels is the scene in one of The Cosmic Trigger books (strictly speaking they're memoirs of sorts, and I forget which one,) when he abandons his plans to have his daughter's remains cryogenically frozen, on the basis that he just doesn't know what the consequences might be, and should accordingly try to let go, this in spite of his passionate, not say extremely angry defence of the practice in the previous volume.
Basically, I like a man who can change his mind - whatever you think about the Illuminatus books, the other stuff's almost always reasonable, in terms of its approach to (ok, sometimes self-consciously) 'weird' material. He was also very good about explaining Quantum physics to those of us who found the science lab at school as inviting as the gym, or actually the church down the road. Also, anyone who seems to have carried on a decades-long feud with both 'Professer' James Randi and Carl Sagan is/was absolutely all right by me.
If there's another world, of whatever description, after this one then Bob's fine, and if not ... Um, oh well. |
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