Questions tagged [stasis]
A fictional method of storing living beings which allow them to survive long periods of time without ageing in a deep form of sleep.
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What sci-fi short story featured a man waking up from stasis several times over millennia?
I read this story in a sci-fi anthology in the mid 90s, but I remember thinking the book looked pretty old by then.
The story is about a man who wakes up from stasis / cryogenic sleep in the future, ...
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Help remembering a story where partial stasis is taking place [duplicate]
I have forgotten most of the story plot, but I think it starts with a guy being taken from his home planet aboard a ship.
It's not an FTL ship which has a stasis field, chemical injections or ...
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Is there FTL travel in the "Alien" franchise?
A common event in the Alien movies is people being placed in stasis for long periods of time, presumably because space travel is a slow and arduous process.
Given the vast distances between even the ...
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Neuber’s Italy; civilization game where players take on the role of world leaders
Paperback, Golden age science fiction.
In this story, long-term sleep is fully developed and an integral part of society. The more important or wealthier a person is, the longer they can afford to ...
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Searching for title: short story or book from 80's, young man on a ship wakes from stasis every year on his birthday
The young man wakes up every year from stasis for just one day. He's on a space ship heading for a planet to colonize, I think. The first time he wakes, the computer leads him to a nursery full of ...
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Title/Author search: read late 70's, last human revived from stasis, intelligent forest
Looking for title and author. This is a novel I read back in high school. Ended on what appeared to be a cliff-hanging transition to a follow on novel. I wasn't crazy about the story, but did wonder ...
