Corpsicle
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Corpsicle is a term that has been used in science fiction to refer to a corpse that has been cryonically cryopreserved. To advocates of cryonics, the term is an offensive pejorative because of the mocking implication that cryonics patients are corpses and "popsicles" (American English for ice pops), not sick people to be recovered.[1]
Its earliest printed usage in the current form dates from 1969 and appears in Fred Pohl's book, The Age of the Pussyfoot. Science fiction philosopher Stephen R. L. Clark, in his work How to Live Forever (1995), credits science fiction writer Larry Niven with coining the term in The Long Arm of Gil Hamilton. Niven explored the concept further in his novel A World Out of Time, in which the protagonist is a corpsicle.[2] Ben Bova uses the term in his 2001 novel The Precipice. In this novel, many subjects have been cryonically preserved; however those who are revived have lost all their memories.[3]
References
- ^ Freeman, Timothy (1998-11-01). "FAQ 9: Glossary". Cryonics FAQ. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
- ^ Clark, Stephen R. (1995). How to Live Forever. Routledge. ISBN 0415126266.
- ^ Bova, Ben (2001). The Precipice (The Asteroid Wars, Book 1). New York: Tor Books. ISBN 978-0312848767.
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