Well, the authors are enthusiastic about the idea of the book ending up in the hands of VIPs, and the potentials for converting them. Although, like your getting at, we plan to research just what VIPs these might be best to give out to first. We will probably look for people that we google to find read a lot of sci fi already. We will also focus on a few other criteria.
Also, as to people potentially not understanding that its not just sci fi, Im sure the book is full of foot notes and side sections about joining the cause. For example I find this in a quick search of
short story 4. INTRODUCTION TO LIFEQUEST
Lifequest's numbered issues are collections of fictional works about life extension, including suspended animation, elimination of aging and progressive self-transformation. A recurrent theme is that interference is not to be tolerated with regard to an individual's pursuit of life extension, where others are not in any way being victimized or placed at risk as a consequence.
Lifequest's stories portray people who desire and work to achieve endless lifespans, via scientific and technological approaches. They frequently encounter conditions where death occurs or seems unavoidable, and struggle against limitations of technology and the complacent acceptance of death by their fellow humans, in an attempt to prevail over that which others regard as inevitable. All the characters and events portrayed in these stories are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE
Contents of Lifequest are entirely fictional. The stories often portray levels of organizational development which do not presently exist. Readers are cautioned that such tales do not reflect the current state of the art in cryonics, or life extension in general. Readers are advised to evaluate the capabilities, standards, and records of performance, of all organizations, before making arrangements of any kind.
Although, Im sure there is potential in running a list of other ways we might want to distrubute these books, past boundlesslife.
I could see another imminst book being done kind of like a magazine, or as a one time magazine, with short stories, articles, latest best breaking news, quotes, pictures, ads for all the organizations, a few good blogs, things like that. We could maybe ask each organization to contribute say, 3 articles, an add, a short story, a few pictures and a few quotes, or some such list, and then make it that way.
As to the cover, I agree. LifeQuests cover comes off that way to me too. I used to be good friends with a guy who lived a couple blocks away who created book covers as part of his living. He's dead now though.
