Poul Anderson wrote a sequel to both, A Midsummer Tempest, and quoted:
"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
"The solemn empires, the great globe itself,
"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
"And like this insubstantial pageant faded
"Leave not a wrack behind -"
-The Tempest, Act 4, Scene 1 -
- in "Star of the Sea" IN Anderson, Time Patrol (December, 2010), pp. 467-640 AT 2, p. 480.
Robert Heinlein quoted more of that same speech:
"Our revels now are ended. These, our actors,
"As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
"Are melted into air, into thin air:
"And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
"The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
"The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
"Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
"And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
"Leave not a rack behind."
- in Between Planets, Double Star, Have Spacesuit - Will Travel and Farnham's Freehold.
However, despite quoting from the beginning of the speech, Heinlein omitted its concluding sentence:
"We are such stuff
"As dreams are made on; and our little life
"Is rounded with a sleep."
Heinlein denied death! Anderson did not. Although he did not write about the deaths of van Rijn or Flandry, we do read stories set long after their deaths. Although the mutant "immortals" in Anderson's The Boat Of A Million Years plan to reconvene a million years hence, there is no guarantee that any of them will in fact survive that long.
James Blish wrote The Triumph Of Time to show that even beneficiaries of antiagathics will be killed by the end of the universe if not by anything else before then.
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