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5) Cryoburn
Author
Series
Publisher
Not Supplied
Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
When a Kibou-daini cryocorp--an immortal company whose job it is to shepherd its all-too-mortal frozen patrons into an unknown future--attempts to expand its franchise into the Barrayaran Empire, Emperor Gregor dispatches his top troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan to check it out.
7) Realive
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Marc experiences a terrible shock when, at just 32, he is diagnosed with a disease and is given one year to live, at best. Unable to accept his death, he decides to freeze his body before the disease can impair it. His great love, Naomi, will accompany him in the process, although she'd rather care for him until his natural end. Sixty years later, an institution called Prodigy Health Corporation manages to revive him.
8) Ice hunt
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Publisher
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Pub. Date
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Language
English
Description
Deep in the earth's polar ice cap lies the Ice Station Grendel, developed by the Soviets more than seventy years earlier, and now threatening to destroy humanity.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, a imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In his youth, Richard "Dodge" Forthrast founded Corporation 9592, a gaming company that made him a multibillionaire. Now in his middle years, Dodge appreciates his comfortable, unencumbered life, managing his myriad business interests, and spending time with his beloved niece Zula and her young daughter, Sophia. One beautiful autumn day, while he undergoes a routine medical procedure, something goes irrevocably wrong. Dodge is pronounced brain dead...
Author
Series
Asperger's mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Samuel Hoenig answers questions for a living. And as a man with Asperger's Syndrome, his unique personality helps him ferret out almost any answer there is. But his latest question is a rather odd one-- who stole a preserved head from the Garden State Cryonics Institute?
12) A Heinlein trio
Author
Publisher
N. Doubleday
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
Puppet master: First came the news that a flying saucer had landed in Iowa. Then came the announcement that the whole thing was a hoax. End of story. Case closed. Except that two agents of the most secret intelligence agency in the U.S. government were on the scene and disappeared without reporting in. And four more agents who were sent in also disappeared. So the head of the agency and his two top agents went in and managed to get out...
13) Frozen in time
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In present-day England, thirteen-year-old Ben and his twelve-year-old sister Rachel find two children who have been cryogenically frozen in a bomb shelter since 1956, and must prevent them from being discovered while helping them adjust to modern life.
Author
Series
Goddess in the machine volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Bound for humanity's new colony planet, seventeen-year-old Andra wakes up from a cryogenic sleep 1,000 years later than scheduled, forcing her to navigate an unfamiliar planet where technology is considered magic and its practitioners revered as deities.
Publisher
[Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
You asked for more, and the Planet Express crew delivered! Welcome back to the light-years-ahead-of-its-time animated series. Join Fry, Bender, Leela, and the rest of the gang for 13 hilarious new episodes that tackle some of the most controversial subjects in the galaxy, including evolution, mind exchange, feline intelligence, and robosexual marriage. Hey, it could happen!
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Astrid's cancer has returned. It's an "astrocytoma," a tumor in her brain. She hears about a radical technology called cryopreservation that may allow her to have her body frozen until a future time when-- and if-- a cure is available. With her boyfriend, Mohit, and her best friend, Chloe, Astrid goes on a road trip in search of that possibility. To see if it's real. To see if it's worth it. For fear of missing out on everything. -- adapted from jacket...
Author
Series
Vorkosigan adventure volume 14.1
Publisher
Subterranean Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Still new to her duties as Lady Vorkosigan, Ekaterin is working together with expatriate scientist Enrique Borgos on a radical scheme to recover the lands of the Vashnoi exclusion zone, lingering radioactive legacy of the Cetagandan invasion of the planet Barrayar. When Enrique's experimental bioengineered creatures go missing, the pair discover that the zone still conceals deadly old secrets. This novella falls after Captain Vorpatril's Alliance...
19) A million suns
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Elder discovers shocking news about Godspeed, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on the space ship. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Lake Geneva, 1816. Nineteen-year-old Mary Shelley is inspired to write a story about a scientist who creates a new life-form. In Brexit Britain, a young transgender doctor called Ry is falling in love with Victor Stein, a celebrated professor leading the public debate around AI and carrying out some experiments of his own in a vast underground network of tunnels. Meanwhile, Ron Lord, just divorced and living with his mom again, is set to make his...