Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.karotte.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan ) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (tor dot com) Five Stories Featuring Cryonics and Suspended Animation Date: 20 May 2024 16:14:41 GMT Organization: loft Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: X-Trace: individual.net oZNdcQ7mElvqgEjbI0KA/AwbANROjKE/PKK+kxuMSeNQt6IuZM X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail Cancel-Lock: sha1:vwl4BxDujGK6SuqHk2NShjcolfY= sha256:IJOVBy+r4+RPplb+4y0G1jqJ8YKHVVVFpYV46KrThWI= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test76 (Apr 2, 2001) Bytes: 2499 In article , Scott Lurndal wrote: >Cryptoengineer writes: >>On 5/17/2024 3:29 PM, BCFD 36 wrote: >>> On 11/24/23 02:19, Robert Carnegie wrote: >>>> On Wednesday, 22 November 2023 at 22:30:11 UTC, Christian Weisgerber >>>> wrote: >>>>> On 2023-11-21, James Nicoll wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Five Stories Featuring Cryonics and Suspended Animation >>>>> This is a ridiculously common trope. Buck Rogers anyone? There >>>>> have been any number of movies and TV shows around this. I mean, >>>>> there is even a Louis de Funès film (_Hibernatus_). >>>> >>>> And a Woody Allen, _The Sleeper_ (1973). >>> [stuff deleted] >>> >>> The Woody Allen movie was _Sleeper_, with a very fetching Diane Keaton, >>> and a Volkswagen Bug found in a cave that started right up. >>> >>That was both a joke and a product placement. >> >>Don't forget Battlefield Earth, > >I've been trying to forget it.... Lin Carter did an interesting variation in his Ganelon Silvermane series. Ganelon is a construct of the Time Vault, a creation of the ancients which animates individuals sort of like living Seldon Crisis resolvers from time to time. Unfortunately, SOMETHING HAPPENED and Ganelon was released early with no training, and no idea what he would have been supposed to have done at the (presumably) far future time he would have been animated. I'm not sure the series was ever resolved, though I see in isfdb that there was a book released outside of the DAW run which I may have to check out. -- columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..