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The procedure was performed as follows:
At the end of an hour of apparent lifelessness, the bodies were laid in separate tanks filled with a prepared solution; the specialists left the room, and the air was pumped out so as to form a vacuum. The tanks were along the walls and had small glass panels through which the sleepers could be inspected at intervals, without entering the sleep chamber. The name of each sleeper, with a number, appeared upon the respective tanks where they could be seen through the glass panel.
In exactly ten years they would be awakened, none the worse for their experience, and with the sensation of having only had a refreshing sleep. As a matter of course, the sleepers awoke in the same physical condition as when put to sleep; that is, put to sleep at thirty years, one would still be thirty years of age in physical fact, although forty in point of time elapsing since his birth.
Compare to the Suspended Animation (Frigorific Process) from The Senator's Daughter (1879) by Edward Page Mitchell, cold-sleep from Robert Heinlein's Methuselah's Children (1941), the eternity drug from Far Centaurus (1944) by A.E. van Vogt, stasis from Heinlein's Door Into Summer (1951), the adiabatic pods from The Lady Who Sailed The Soul (1960) by Cordwainer Smith, cold-pack from Dr. Futurity (1960) by Philip K. Dick, bibs from Cantata 140 (1964) by Philip K. Dick,
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).
Just for fun, contrast with Cosmoline (Warm Sleep) from War Dogs (2014) by Greg Bear. Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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