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Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality

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Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> wrote:
> Paul Colquhoun wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 May 2018 21:20:23 -0500, David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> wrote:
>> | On 2018-05-04, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>> |> YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality  
>> |>
>> |> "Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality. He Meets an
>> |> Alien who is also seeking immortality and they discuss there mutual
>> |> quest. The ???punch line??? of the story is that the alien is already 60,000
>> |> years old."
>> |>
>> |> "I think the Author was either A. C. Clarke or Asimov but I am not sure."
>> |>
>> |> From:  
>> |>      https://best-sci-fi-books.com/contact/
>> |
>> | ... Might be a Niven? Specifically a Draco's Bar, I think it was, story?
>>
>>
>> Could it be "Cautionary Tales" by Niven? My copy is in the "Convergent
>> Series" short story collection.
>>
>> It's only about 5 pages long. The alien is only about 10,000 earth years
>> old, but its a pretty good match.
>
> When "Cautionary Tales" ran in Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine,
> the two talking at the table made the cover illustration.  The human
> looked like the magazine's namesake, and, this being the first IA'sfm
> I'd run across, I took it to be unassociated with any story - just
> the boss wining and dining on the company expense account - and after
> connecting it to the story, wondered how often the editor and cover
> artist conspired to put his image as well as likeness on the cover.

A dead-tree version of Hitch's own cameo ploy. [1] Your question about
the existence of other such covers is good question, Jack. Here's a link
to the IA cameo cover that you mention. [2]

Note.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Alfred_Hitchcock_cameo_appearances
2. http://www.isfdb.org/wiki/images/f/fb/IASFM002.jpg

✍

Thank you,

-- 
Don

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YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-05-03 19:07 -0500
  Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-05-03 21:20 -0500
    Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2018-05-03 21:02 -0700
    Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-05-03 21:38 -0700
      Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Kay Shapero <kay@invalid.net> - 2018-05-06 22:29 -0700
    Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Paul Colquhoun <newsposter@andor.dropbear.id.au> - 2018-05-04 15:42 +1000
      Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 07:14 -0700
        Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-04 14:51 +0000
        Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Jack Bohn <jack.bohn64@gmail.com> - 2018-05-04 09:16 -0700
        Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-05-04 13:12 -0700
      Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Gene Wirchenko <genew@telus.net> - 2018-05-04 15:20 -0700
      Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality banjo@dontspam.silent.com - 2018-05-04 23:37 +0100
  Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-05-03 21:04 -0600
    Re: YASID: Looking for a short story about a man seeking immortality D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-05-04 03:36 +0000

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