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Five Famous Authors do Public Appearances in Second Life Full Story

by Stephen Euin Cobb

“I really enjoyed my appearance in Second Life,” Robert J. Sawyer said, “and I mean that both literally and figuratively. Literally, my appearance was buff, with muscles and hair, the former of which I've never had much of and the latter of which has long been gone. Figuratively, the appearance was a blast: I was there to talk about my novel Rollback, which, in its way, is a transhumanist/extropian novel—about radical life extension. So, I was preaching to the converted, and they were a very friendly lot.”