Stephen Marlowe 22 min read

In the seventh tank, the liquid boils away and Eric's body, frozen for nearly two centuries, uncurls and shudders back toward life, his heart racing three hundred beats a minute.

Stephen Marlowe's 1952 story is a vivid social-SF and space-opera tale of a man revived from long suspension. Atmospheric, gripping golden-age SF. Read it for a story that opens on the physical drama of resurrection and follows its awakened sleeper into a transformed world.

In its time

Published in 1952, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

22 min read (a short story, a single idea, delivered and gone).