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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
There was a Larry Niven story with this storyline. The guy keeps going back into stasis and the world is getting weirder and weirder. He makes robots that maintain his stasis and now and then they pull him out when there has been an advance.

Eventually they pull him out and the sun is huge and red in the sky, and he is rushed to a spaceship. They go to another planet. Next time they wake him the planet is populated with people that all look like they could be related to his girlfriend. Except they are all a bit green-ish, because the photo of his girl that the robots used as the basis for their genetic recreations had faded with time! The robots have now advanced to become a lifeform themselves. Very cool poo poo.

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Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
The locked up man sounds kind of like part of Roger Zelazny's "Amber" series.

That was a real mindblower when I first read it as a teen around 1978.

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