# SF Story about Guy Waking Up Prematurely from Suspended Animation? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 18, 2009, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796 "2009-05-18T00:33:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/21 "2017-04-08T14:23:26Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > I got that feeling just watching the ads for “Passengers” P.S. Also thought that the movie “Core” was a dumbed-down version of the novel “Core” [Core (novel) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_%28novel%29) but apparently not. (and I’m not alone in this [CONTRARY BRIN: Watch my “other” (awful) movie adaptation](http://davidbrin.blogspot.com/2006/02/watch-my-other-awful-movie-adaptation.html)) ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/22 "2017-04-08T14:45:49Z")
There is also [this](http://www.cinemarunner.com/2016/12/30/looking-twisted-horror-version-passengers-enter-ec-comics-50-girls-50/). ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/23 "2017-04-08T16:11:40Z")
When I saw the ads for “Passengers”, I too was reminded of another story. Not the Steele, which I recognized from the OP, but one in which the guy did reanimate one of the females. An older story, clearly not the basis for the film, more similar in tone to the comic presentation, but I was never able to run it down. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/24 "2017-04-09T04:40:45Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > I remember another 1950s-era story in which a guy is awakened by the ship itself because the computer needs him to make a decision (to avoid a collision, maybe?). I remember he barfs when he wakes up, is fed a thin broth and has oils massaged into his very dry skin by the manipulator arms of his cryogenic bed. There was time travel later in the story, too. Anyone remember that story? > [@Andy\_L](#): > > This is making me think of A. E. Van Vogt’s “Far Centaurus” - there’s a suspended animation trip in it, and later time travel. Does “Electron psychology” ring a bell? “Far Centaurus” was written in 1944. > [@RealityChuck](#): > > Definitely “Far Cent[a]urus.” The oil massage marks it completely (though he is awakened because he’s reached his destination). It also has time travel and the sort of Deus ex machina ending that only Van Vogt could pull off. Right you (both) are, and here it is: [http://lulz.xerq.net/TXT/far-centaurus.txt](http://lulz.xerq.net/TXT/far-centaurus.txt) ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2017, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/25 "2017-09-02T23:12:42Z")
Bumping this to ask if anybody knows the name of the story I reference in post 23? ---
**Author:** ![Melbourne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5e925/32.png) [@Melbourne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Melbourne)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/26 "2017-09-03T00:26:10Z")
> [@billfish678](#): > > That actually happened to me. Except it was in the back of station wagon with “wood panel” siding rather than a spacecraft and our family vacation destination was the grand canyon rather than nearby star system. > > Other than that? Exact. Same. Thing. OMG yes. We were passengers once, and young. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/27 "2017-09-03T00:44:04Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > Bumping this to ask if anybody knows the name of the story I reference in post 23? I do not. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/28 "2017-09-03T05:49:48Z")
> [@E-DUB](#): > > When I saw the ads for “Passengers”, I too was reminded of another story. Not the Steele, which I recognized from the OP, but one in which the guy did reanimate one of the females. An older story, clearly not the basis for the film, more similar in tone to the comic presentation, but I was never able to run it down. > [@E-DUB](#): > > Bumping this to ask if anybody knows the name of the story I reference in post 23? The description is vague. By chance was it _The Dream Millennium_ by James White? In that novel the male protagonist wakes up one woman who was caught in a malfunction and comforts her as she dies, and then there’s a second unscheduled awakening of a woman by the ship’s computer to check up on him when he fails to report for re-freezing on time. ---
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 2017, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796/29 "2017-09-03T06:08:26Z")
There are some people who claim that _Passengers_ was inspired by a comic book story called “50 Girls 50”: > **[Passengers (2016 film)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passengers_(2016_film))** > > Passengers is a 2016 American science-fiction romance film directed by Morten Tyldum, written by Jon Spaihts and starring Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt. The supporting cast features Michael Sheen, Laurence Fishburne and Andy García. The film follows two passengers on an immense interstellar spacecraft carrying thousands of people to a colony 60 light years from Earth, when the two are awakened 90 years early from their induced hibernation. > The script was written in 2007 by Spaihts, but la... [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sf-story-about-guy-waking-up-prematurely-from-suspended-animation/496796.md?page=1)