cryonics

Explores the science of cryonics--the practice of freezing dead bodies in the hope of later revival; and discusses the legal, religious, and ethical implications of the practice.

Revived from a cryogenic state after a cure for her rare illness is found, Floe, a sixteen-year-old punk rollerblader from Venice Beach, California, tries to adapt to a new world--ten years in the future--that includes her bratty kid sister who is now Floe's guardian.

Deep in the earth's polar ice cap lies the Ice Station Grendel, developed by the Soviets more than seventy years earlier, and now threatening to destroy humanity.

Healer Lunzie Mespil is involved in an accident while traveling on a mining ship to her new job and places herself in cryogenic stasis while awaiting rescue; but when she is finally picked up, she learns that sixty-two years have passed and the world is a very different place than the one she remembers.

After a storm causes a power outage at the Institute for Cryogenic Experimentation, the thawed-out bodies of twenty-seven federal inmates are missing, and when her best friend disappears, Dani Kraft learns he's been taken in by a defrosted cult leader, and she must enter a dangerous alternate reality to get him back.