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From: bugboy@PORTIA.STANFORD.EDU (Michael Frank)
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Subject: Re: Transportation by Dissolution!
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Date: 22 Apr 89 07:37:56 GMT
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>> PS - I've never read of this "cryonic tank" mode of transport in SF, but I
>> imagine someone has thought of it before.  References anyone?
>
>> [I seem to remember there was some story by Poul Anderson I read
>>  years and years ago.  I won't even hazard a guess at the title.
>>  Anybody recognize it?
>>  --JoSH]
>Sounds a lot like Simak's "Way Station" to me. He was a little more basic,
>prefering acid vats to cryonic tanks!
>
>Mike.

In Piers Anthony's book _Macroscope_, a method of transportation through
black holes is used where the people get into a vat where they are dissolved
into raw materials (which are able to survive the intense G-forces at the
hole), and then reassembled after the trip thru the wormhole.



Mike. (A different one.)



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