Questions tagged [suspended-animation]
A temporary state of interrupted breathing and loss of consciousness resembling death, caused especially by asphyxia. It is notably used in the late 20th to 21st centuries in Star Trek for deep-space missions.
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60s? novel. Man hibernates to sleep for hundreds (thousands?) of years multiple times
The MC enters a deep lead(?)-lined chamber that keep Cosmic Rays(?) from entering the chamber; this allows him to enter a state of hibernation, greatly slowing his bodily functions.
When he wakes (I'm ...
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Science fiction story about space travellers who find a population in suspended animation
I'm trying to find the title of a story where a spaceship lands on a planet and find lots of people in suspended animation. The manage to reawaken one (after a few failures) and find that they were ...
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Short story with suspended animation dude woken every year for a day, seeing previous crew live, die [duplicate]
Short story. I think in a magazine (Analog or IASFM or the like). Circa late 70s or early 80s.
There's a teenaged boy who is woken every year for one day, I guess his birthday. He interacts with ...
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Military space short story, 1960s to early 1980s, that appeared in an anthology pre-1984
I need help finding a short story I read in an anthology when I was very young (35-40 years ago.) I hope this rings a bell for someone.
The story centers around a human who is revived from suspended ...
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Science fiction story about a man who time travels in a space capsule and crash lands in the future, discovers insects have replaced humans
My grandpa told me of a science fiction short story he read about an astronaut who is put in a space capsule in suspended animation for many years (he said maybe 500 or 1000 years), and the system ...
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Ship's captain wakes colonist, turns out to be a convict working his sentence as a brain in a jar
I read this in the 90s. Probably older, probably a short story.
The main character was the captain and sole crew-member of a starship delivering a cargo of colonists in suspended animation to a remote ...
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Short story - Prophetic science fiction author reawakened on the moon
I suspect the story I'm learning for is from Analog in the 1980s or so.
A science fiction writer is woken up from cold sleep, and greeted by government officials who tell him that his stories are ...
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Sci fi story about suspended animation, military, memory upload, memory download into new bodies after death in combat
Looking for a book I remember reading from 80s or 90s.
Was about a soldier who would up being put into some type of suspended animation.
At some point he gets woken up just for wars then goes back ...
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A man builds a suspended animation machine to visit the future [duplicate]
I read a story in the '80s (it could have been early or late '80s) about a man who built a suspended animation machine as a form of time travel because he wanted to see the future in person. I think ...
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Post-nuclear war book where a boy ends up going into suspended animation until the Earth renews itself [duplicate]
I'm trying to find the title of a book I read as a kid, probably somewhere in late elementary days. I read this one around the same time as The White Mountains series by John Christopher, ~30 years ...
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Science fiction story about an intelligent man put in suspended animation to solve future problems
I am asking this question for an older relative. This story sticks out to them over four decades after reading it, but they can't remember the title.
The story is about an extremely intelligent man ...
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How does suspended animation work in “Earth 2”?
In the TV show Earth 2, the colonists spent the trip to the new planet in suspended animation. Was there any explanation, or hints about how the suspended animation worked (like cold storage)?
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Novel featuring a group of regular people who wake up from pods administered by aliens and start pairing off [duplicate]
Possibly post-apocalyptic, in any case the characters wake up from what may be suspended animation into a common area. I think they may be fed some kind of artificially constituted food and one of the ...
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70s book/short story, Man wakes up from suspend animation or cryo and world has collapsed
In the book, the protagonist wakes up from either suspended animation or cryo (Probably supposed to be a short test), After 10-20 years have passed.
He finds the facility abandoned (and looted?), ...
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1970s novel. Spaceman in suspended animation wakes up in underground city/bunker
Paperback book, in English bought in USA in the 1970s.
Spaceman in suspended animation wakes up in underground city/bunker.
How he got there...
I THINK he was a crewman on a spaceship, and was doing ...
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Short story search. Snow moon, love triangle, hibernation
A story read sometime in the late 1970's or early 1980's from a collection purchased second hand.
Protagonist is part of a archaeological expedition to a snow moon or planet. May have been Jovian ...
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60s/70s story about English people (Chris et al?) going to Mars and hibernating on the way
It was a long time ago and my memory is faulty: a small group of 4 or 5 young men and women are sent to Mars from England (perhaps to check out colonization?), using some sort of long-term human ...
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Captain becomes sleeping pod
What's the movie where they have upright hypersleep pods. The crew is strapped in and when they wake up they find that their captains harness slipped (I guess years back) because his face was pressed ...
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Very old post-apocalyptic Science Fiction novel - suspended animation, 2nd moon, and a chasm
I'm trying to identify a very old science fiction novel, probably from the 1920s or 1930s.
The plot involves a couple who go into suspended animation for some reason, and wake up several thousand ...
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What story involved a man awakened from a long suspended animation with a new body, and a brain implant with eye interface?
I think it's been 15+ years since I originally read the story, and I believe it was either a short story or a fairly short novel. I recall certain tidbits like:
The man's brain is put into a new "...
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Looking for a movie I saw as a child: boy went back in time, friend died, later born again
The movie was about a boy who went back in time to a pirate era and met a friend there who later in the movie died. The boy never was able to return to his time but was able to witness his friend be ...
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Novel, or series of novels, where people take turns living [duplicate]
I cannot remember much about this novel (series of novels?) but:
The earth is overpopulated. Everyone has to go into suspended animation, and we all take turns living, I think one quarter of humanity ...
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can you identify a show about a man thawed from cryosleep to help future survivors of mankind?
This is driving me crazy. I think it was a short lived TV series, maybe scifi channel. Not real recent but within the last 10 years I think. The back story was a near future that had perfected ...
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Robot wakes man from suspended animation to play Santa Claus (comic)
I recall a short comic story from a magazine (maybe Heavy Metal or similar) in the late 70's or early 80's. It's about a guy who is woken from suspended animation on a colony ship by a robot once a ...
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What 80s SF novel had survivors on starship cannibalize frozen colonists?
Searching for a SF novel, I believe from the early 80s, where colonists who awakened early on a massive colonizing starship survive for generations by cannibalizing the tens of thousands of frozen ...
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Cryonics Short Story in three parts?
I am trying to remember and find a story about at least three people who are awakened from cryonic sleep/suspended animation, each at progressively futuristic dates, and the circumstances that befall ...
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Sci fi short story about a boy experiencing space travel out of suspended animation [duplicate]
I'm looking for the name of a short story about family on space flight.
The boy somehow stayed out of suspended animation, possibly out of curiosity.
At the end, with "empty eyes" he answers what ...
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Story Identification: Man freezes himself and his wife in the hopes of curing her terminal illness [duplicate]
I read this story when I was very young and can't remember the name but it made an impression. A young man finds out that his wife has a terminal illness, so convinces her to be put into some kind of ...
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80s TV movie: ship with child crew [duplicate]
Question regarding a TV movie from the 80s with a ship crewed entirely by children. These children were geniuses who were specifically chosen because it was the only way a crew could make it all the ...
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Book about a man who's cut in half & placed in suspended animation
I remember reading a book fifteen to twenty years ago that had the following charactersitics:
The main character was a man who at some point lost the lower part of his body (legs & pelvis)
He was ...
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