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Subject: matter transmission/cloning etc
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Date: Sun, 6-Oct-85 15:37:11 EDT
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From: Stephen Balzac <SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@UCB-VAX.Berkeley.EDU>

For those who have never read Van Vogt's Null-A books, this may be a bit
of a spoiler, but for those who have,

Gilbert Gosseyn is killed early in the first book, but wakes up apparently
in perfect health, on Venus.  He remembers everything that happened to him
up to the moment of his "death" and eventually concludes that he is the
same person.  Actually, all his memories were instantly transported into
an exact copy of his body at the moment of his death.  Effectively, however
he is the same...