Anderson's World Without Stars is set on a planet of a star in intergalactic space where our galaxy is visible in its entirety and worshiped as "God." The human characters have the antithanatic and a technology enabling them to make instantaneous jumps across interstellar and intergalactic space. Thus, an astronaut could spend millennia roaming the universe.
In Anderson's The Avatar, after the ninth jump, Chinook is at a large T machine in intergalactic space, a stepping stone to other galaxies. Chinook approaches her encounter with the Others.
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Kaor, Paul!
I can imagine medical technology being able to EXTEND, to some limited degree, human lifespans, but not the kind of indefinite "antithanatic" seen in WORLD WITHOUT STARS. Which means I find the antisenescence of the Technic stories far more plausible. But of course the idea of an antithanatic was worth examining!
Sean
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