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"What has allowed so many Psychopathic Personalities to rise so high in corporations and government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Cryosleep | ||
| Use of extreme cold to cause suspended animation. |
This is an interesting use of the "cold sleep" idea, mentioning its medical uses rather than just the use of cryogenic techniques to ease the passage of humans to the stars via normal space.
Very early use of this word.
| "They're putting Dan into cryosleep today. Dr. Tomaso says he can work on Dan's neural patterns much more easily when the nerve impulses are slowed down by low temperature..."
"He might be under cryosleep for years and years," she said. |
| Technovelgy from Flight of Exiles,
by Ben Bova. Published by Dutton in 1972 Additional resources -
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As far as I know, the first use of the word "cryosleep" occurs in Man: The Next Thirty Years, a 1968 book by Henry Still:
"You mean that thing where they quick-freeze you..."
Compare to Suspended Animation (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),
corpsicle from Pohl's The Age of the Pussyfoot (1965) and the EverRest Cryotorium from Roger Zelazny's Flare (1992).
"There's still a third alternative which you might wish to consider." The doctor paused thoughtfully. "Perhaps you've heard of cryosleep?"
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