The last thing any sane person wants is a jihad. - Poul Anderson

Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren—or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.

Your son was in your own tradition."
"Better, I hope," said the old man. "There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.

He did not share the widespread present-day faith in astrology. It seemed likeliest to him that sheer accident ruled the world.