defrostee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]defrostee (plural defrostees)
- One who has been revived after being in cryonic suspension.
- 1973, National Lampoon, page 60:
- One thing alone seems to be certain, and that is that the cockroach will be the final master of this globe; and if the defrostee is unfortunate enough to survive into that era, he will have to take what is given him, and the greatest minds of our time declare it is not likely to be much.
- 1995, Robert Kastenbaum, Is There Life After Death?: The Latest Evidence Analysed, page 251:
- We would be better off enjoying the re-runs of his films rather than the expensive re-run of a rapidly aging defrostee.
- 2005, Robert M. Philmus, Visions and Re-visions: (re)constructing Science Fiction, page 77:
- The paranoia which finally takes hold of Lem's 'defrostee' in his confrontation with Symington (144ff.), like much else about the fantasy world of Tichy's wherein 'Procrustics, Inc.' looms larger and larger, is surely reminiscent of that work by Philip K. Dick in particular, as is the tromp-l'esprit which gulls us into believing that in the anti-utopian garbage dump we at last get to what is really going on in 2039.
- 2007, Brian Stableford, Dark Ararat:
- By far its most interesting fixture, for the time being, was a second bed, which was occupied by a second defrostee.
- 2017, Is Anyone out There?, page Rick Kalm:
- Looking around, the other 'defrostees' seemed content to stay wrapped up in their own tormented world.
- 2018, Luc Peters, Anthony R. Yue, On Mirrors! Philosophy—Art—Organization, page 61:
- This is meant for people who have been cryogenically frozen and feel an urge to share their experiences with other post-cryogenics or defrostees.