SENTIENCE - Prologue
cryonics had long since been a dead-end. and we couldn't get people to the nearest stars any faster than a few hundred years. even our oldest didn't last that long. we needed a generation ship, somewhere for humans to live and reproduce as we journeyed.
BX-132 Chapter 4
The frightening thing is, the cryonics only brought their temperature down to near normal. we installed them in the level 5 bio-lab and over the next three days... well you've seen the result."
Father's Day [Vent]
No release from my cryonic state. what is this? i've been stricken by fate. wrapped up tight, cannot move, can't break free. hand of doom has a tight grip on me! eventually, she'd drifted away from him and her mother. shit happened.
The Spirit of the Law
One thing i can tell you is, cryonics couldn't keep people alive forever back on earth. they could extend life, until a way to solve a health problem for good could be found, but not forever.
Scorched Earth
"when i lived on earth, i worked in cryonics." something about the way the ermine said that made the jackal wonder how meteor could've ever liked it enough to make a career out of it. "my clients were the most contemptible people in the world."
The Master's Tools
If no one works to mend fences, the system's going to have something it's never had, something that, with cryonics and mind-wipes, with the way it's built, it can't possibly afford to have, not even once."
The Hand You're Dealt
"Forgetting someone is killing them twice." Fran had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with her best friend's coma alone, while her roommate had kept having a harder and harder time dealing with living in a graveyard full of dead...