From: usenet@mikevanpelt.com   
      
   In article <10egihb$agf7$2@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36   wrote:   
   >I started this series awhile back. I recently picked it up again. I am   
   >enjoying it, except he keeps killing off characters I like. Not as bad   
      
   I tried it way back when, but the premise just didn't work   
   for me.   
      
   When you get old and gray and arthritic, the Galactics say   
   if you go to work for them, they will rejuvinate you, and   
   make you immortal.   
      
   That's the sales pitch.   
      
   Thing is, no one ... not one person ... who took them up on   
   this offer has ever been seen or heard from again.  Ever.   
      
   Even though the Galactics are human, for all anyone could   
   possibly know, It's A Cookbook(TM).   
      
   Of course, it isn't, but what they do is clone a copy of you,   
   upload a copy of your mind into the copy, and euthanize you.   
   --   
   Mike Van Pelt       |  "I don't advise it unless you're nuts."   
   mvp at calweb.com   |   -- Ray Wilkinson, after riding out Hurricane   
   KE6BVH              |      Ike on Surfside Beach in Galveston   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)