Death and the Serpent: Immortality in Science Fiction and FantasyCarl B. Yoke, Donald M. Hassler |
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... eternal life by conscientiously following the Way . 22 Mesopotamian myths contain immortal gods and may report the very first mortal to achieve immortality in a character named Ut - napishtim . The probable prototype for Noah , he is ...
... eternal life by conscientiously following the Way . 22 Mesopotamian myths contain immortal gods and may report the very first mortal to achieve immortality in a character named Ut - napishtim . The probable prototype for Noah , he is ...
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... eternal promise , in her gaze the eternal doom . On the other hand , Tiptree , more and more often in her later stories , investigates the biological possibilities for transcendence . The intimations of immortality remained at first ...
... eternal promise , in her gaze the eternal doom . On the other hand , Tiptree , more and more often in her later stories , investigates the biological possibilities for transcendence . The intimations of immortality remained at first ...
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... eternal life . As such , Vance's novel is a treatise on the social dynamics of immortality , of its impact on human society and human ambition . In a world where eternal life is possible , there will be social change and adap- tation ...
... eternal life . As such , Vance's novel is a treatise on the social dynamics of immortality , of its impact on human society and human ambition . In a world where eternal life is possible , there will be social change and adap- tation ...
Contents
Is There Life After Immortality? | 19 |
A Recent Idea | 39 |
The Elves of J R R Tolkien and Sylvia | 57 |
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