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"it slowly dawned on me that the landscape of science is maybe what interests people a great deal in science fiction."
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Compare with cold-sleep from Heinlein's 1951 novel Between Planets as well as bibs, from Dick's 1964 story Cantata 140.
Compare to the space capsule from E.R. James' 1954 story of the same name and to the escape pod from George Lucas' 1976 story Star Wars.
Compare to the frigorific process from The Senator's Daughter (1879) by Edward Page Mitchell, cold-sleep from Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children (1941), stasis from Heinlein's Door Into Summer (1951), the adiabatic pods from The Lady Who Sailed The Soul (1960) by Cordwainer Smith,
corpsicle from Pohl's The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965), the hibernaculum from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) by Arthur C. Clarke, cryosleep from Flight of Exiles (1972) by Ben Bova and the EverRest Cryotorium from Roger Zelazny's Flare (1992). Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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