cryonics

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cryonics

Sleeper

A cryogenically frozen clarinetist is thawed out 200 years later by anti-government radicals to help overthrow their oppressive and evil dictator--a disembodied nose.

King of thorn

Kasumi, one of a small band of survivors who awoke too soon from a frozen state which was supposed to keep them safe until a cure could be found for a virus that turns its victims into stone, continues her quest to find a way off the island on which she has been imprisoned, and sets off with her companions into a half-submerged tunnel, not knowing what awaits them at the end.

Fear of missing out

Despite the loving intentions of her mother and boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Astrid wants to make the decisions about her life and death when her cancer returns, including exploring the possibility of cryopreservation.
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This is not the end

Seventeen-year-old Lake Devereaux must make an impossible choice in a future where resurrection is possible, but each person is only permitted to bring back a single loved one.
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While we run

2014
"It's the year 2128, and Tegan Oglietti, the world's first successfully revived cryonics patient, and her maybe-boyfriend, Abdi Taalib, are on the run from the government and from a dangerous rebel group. When they uncover shocking new information about the cryonics program, they are faced with an impossible decision that will put thousands of lives in their hands"--Provided by publisher.

When we wake

When sixteen-year-old Tegan is killed in the year 2027, she is put in a frozen state from which she wakes up 100 years later. The future that Tegan wakes up to is not how she imagined it would be, and soon she discovers information that forces her to make a choice between staying quiet and living in this new world or fighting for a new one.

King of thorn

2008
Kasumi and the other survivors learn the truth behind the Medusa virus, but the knowledge does not make it any easier for them to survive and slowly they begin to turn on one another.

Across the universe

Across the Universe, Book 1
2011
Teenaged Amy, a cryogenically frozen passenger on the spaceship Godspeed, wakes up to discover that someone may have tried to murder her.

Frozen in time

2010
In 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.

Immobility

2012
Josef Horkai wakes up paralyzed with no memory of his life, and he is urged by people who say they know him to reclaim a critical object and return to a frozen state before time runs out.

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