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[/url]From submarines to robots, much of the technology we take for granted today was originally conceived, not by scientists or inventors, but by that biggest of dreamers: the science fiction writer. Once thought wildly impossible, cryonics—the freezing of the recently dead, to be revived and repaired in the future when technology allows—seems to be following that same path.
In 1931, Neil R. Jones published the story “The Jameson Satellite” in Amazing Stories about a professor who, obsessed with immortality, launches his body into space and is eventually picked up, forty million years later, and revived by alien science. The story was quite popular at the time, eventually becoming a series and influencing future writers like Isaac Asimov as well as thinkers such as the young Dr. Robert Ettinger who, in 1964, wrote the nonfiction book The Prospect of Immortality, which explored cryonics in detail and eventually earned Ettinger the title The Father of Cryonics.
Since then, cryonics has become, if not yet a fully respected science, certainly a seasoned science fictional notion, employed in stories such as Clifford Simak’s “Why Call Them Back From Heaven?” and Fred Pohl’s “The Age of the Pussyfoot,” as well as in innumerable space adventure stories such as 2001: A Space Odyssey and Aliens where the crew is turned into corpsicles (thank you, Larry Niven) for long term storage during flight.