Time Travel discussion

I am sure I am not the only one here who enjoys books about people who have been put in stasis or cryonically frozen etc. to find themselves awoken in a much later time than expected. These stories share some of the aspects of time travel that are fun - witnessing someone learn a new age and culture.

Anyone have any suggestions of books like this you have read? The link would be greatly appreciated!

A few I have read, as examples:
The First Immortal
A Long, Long Sleep
Across the Universe

P.S. I am mainly interested in newer books.

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The list of books, thanks for suggestions! Some I'm adding just because I've learned of them since.

Thanks!

Since I have to look 'em up anyway I'm putting in links for the sake of anyone else curious about the same topic:

The Door Into Summer
Love Minus Eighty
The City and the Stars
Syncing Forward
Red Dwarf
A World Out of Time
The Unincorporated Man
Beyond The Elastic Limit: An Epic Fable
To Your Scattered Bodies Go
The Forever War
The Eternity Brigade
The Freezer

Not to toot my own horn, but my book Syncing Forward deals with that subject. The main character is injected with a drug which places him in a state of chemopreservation (different technology from cryopreservation but the same goals). The problem is that they can't undue what has been done, and so goes his journey forward.

Since you asked, both Cryogenics & Time Travel:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Just saying

THE DOOR INTO SUMMER, by Robert Heinlein.

That's the basic set-up for the Riverworld series, starting with To Your Scattered Bodies Go

Brenda wrote: "THE DOOR INTO SUMMER, by Robert Heinlein."

GREAT book!

Ooooh, The Forever War! It's a classic for this kind of thing.

Similarly, The Eternity Brigade.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far... off to do a little research...

I just finished reading "Love minus eighty" which fits your criteria somewhat... The premise is that people get cryogenically frozen when they die, and can be revived by friends or loved ones. The catch is that is it ludicrously expensive, so most people never have a chance to pay it. As a result, a new industry is created whereby millionaire men can pay to visit a "Bridecicle" (frozen woman), have her partially revived for a short time in order to decide if they want to revive them, on the condition that the woman signs an iron-clad marriage contract with them.

Not exactly what you were asking for, but the premise was pretty interesting to me.

That does sound interesting though, thanks!

It's not a central feature of the book, but in THE CITY AND THE STARS by Arthur C. Clarke there is cryogenics. So any time something bad happens people hop into the ice bucket, so that they can sleep away the period of adjustment/war/change and come back when the dust has died down.

Thanks!

Since I have to look 'em up anyway I'm putting in links for the sake of anyone else curious about the same topic:

The Door Into Summer (thanks for the suggestion!)

Love Minus Eighty

The City and the Stars

Syncing Forward

Red Dwarf

A World Out of Time (looks like I've read this one)

The Unincorporated Man (reading)

I am currently listening to The Door Into Summer by Heinlein and absolutely loving it, so thanks for the suggestion Brenda!

It not only has cryo(ish) sleep but I am now getting into a part regarding time travel. And... it has a CAT!

So, definitely my kind of book. :-P

It certainly is a product of its time in some ways though, regarding gender roles/stereotypes, but if I take the date it was written into account it's really enjoyable.

It's also interesting seeing what his idea of the future was like. As we often see, he was very right about some things, and very wrong about others. I think I only have about a 1/3 to go.

A friend of mine told me story about Red Dwarf I am uncertain if its true but its funny regardless.

Patrick Stewart AKA Captain Picard was visiting the UK and read a blurb about Red Dwarf and thought it was ripping off Star Trek . He was going to call his lawyer and then he actually saw an episode...Nothing to even compare with star trek.

Also, the show thought cancelled after season 3 got a miracle revival and they started production on season 4 but they had all these unresolved issues from season 3 which is covered by a long star wars text crawl right before the season four opener.

Thanks Paul, I will check out Syncing Forward.

Gertie wrote: "I am sure I am not the only one here who enjoys books about people who have been put in stasis or cryonically frozen etc. to find themselves awoken in a much later time than expected. These stories..."

Gertie:
I'm currently reading an interesting book called A World Out of Time by Larry Niven (who writes a much better story without Jerry Pournelle as a long-winded, boring-detail-obsessed co-writer). The premise is that a guy riddled with cancer decides to have himself frozen in the 1970s with the hope that science might one day catch up. His body is a freezer-burned mess, but a futuristic society salvages his brain and uploads it into the body of a convicted felon who has had his brain wiped. Rather than re-entering society, the former "corpsicle" is tasked with traveling throughout the universe to seed other planets to be habitable in the future when Earth is no longer habitable. Part of this time is spent in a deep sleep. He goes through a black hole (? -- the book was kind of vague on this point) and ends up returning to Earth 3 million years in the future. I'm just getting to the part where he's exploring future Earth.

Thanks Amy! I recognize that title... okay, yeah, I guess that I *have* read it, even though now I can't remember it. Lol! I'm not sure how I could forget it, it's kind of an interesting premise. :-P

I'm currently listening to The Unincorporated Man and loved it from the start - hopefully it stays this good throughout the book.

Gosh, I just remembered this thread today. I read and enjoyed Syncing Forward - would also recommend it to those of you who haven't read it yet.

The Unincorporated Man started out great, started to feel like a broken record towards the end, but I still really enjoyed it. I'll be reading a couple more from the list this year. :-)

I enjoyed both The Door Into Summer (very Heinlein) and Love Minus Eighty (unique ideas!), thanks for those suggestions.

It's been while since this thread was created, so maybe there will be some new cryo suggestions now as well.