Ann Warren Griffith 9 min read

Why build a time machine when there's something easier in your kitchen? When Mrs. Graham's cat survives six days in the deep-freeze, the road to quick-frozen people, and Zeritsky's Law, begins.

Ann Warren Griffith's 1951 story is a wry social-SF and time-travel satire. Clever, funny golden-age SF. Read it for a genial story that spins one-way 'time travel' out of the humble home freezer, and the legal and social tangles of a world where people can be frozen and revived, in a light, well-turned golden-age piece full of dry wit and inventive logic.

In its time

Published in 1951, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Thorne