cryogenic technology theme

also known as: biological stasis technology

Technology that can freeze, e.g., a human body and thus stop it from aging or changing in any major way for an extended amount of time.

62 total · 1 choice · 11 major · 50 minor

StoryLevelMotivation
tng1x26 choice 20th century people were cryogenically preserved
movie: A Long Return (1975) major David chose to put his wife Anna in cryogenic suspension after she was diagnosed with a terminal disease until such time as a cure was found.
movie: Open Your Eyes (1997) major It tuned out that César had been cryogenically preserved and was experiencing extremely lucid and lifelike virtual reality dreams.
movie: Oxygen (2021) major The whole story unfolds within is a cryogenic stasis pod.
movie: Sleeper (1973) major Miles cryogenically preserved without his consent in 1973.
movie: Strange New World (1975) major Three astronauts, after waking up from 180 years in cryogenic suspension, returned to a desolate planet Earth to try and revive a number of people who had been indefinitely cryogenically suspended underground.
movie: The Frozen Dead (1966) major Dr. Norberg was thawing out Nazi soldiers who had been flash frozen in a walk in freezer.
movie: The Man from Beyond (1922) major Howard Hillary is found frozen for a hundred years in the arctic ice and is thawed out and awoken
movie: Vanilla Sky (2001) major It was ultimately revealed that David had nearly all along been cryogenically preserved and was experiencing extremely lucid and lifelike virtual reality dreams.
novel: Children of Time (2015) major people were frozen for hundreds of years at a time