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In Methuselah's Children, one hundred thousand people steal a space ship with room for only about one-fifth as many. To save space (and reduce boredom during a long voyage) many of them opt for the hibernation state of cold-rest.
See also cold-sleep from the same novel; cold-sleep is also mentioned in Between Planets.
The term "cold-rest" is used more frequently in the story than "cold-sleep". Comment/Join this discussion ( 0 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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