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The mammoths of the ancient world have been wonderfully preserved in the ice of Siberia. The cold, only a few miles out in space, will be far more intense than in the polar regions and its power of preserving the dead body would most probably be correspondingly increased. When the hero-scientist of this story knows he must die, he conceives a brilliant idea for the preservation of his body, the result of which even exceeded his expectations. What, how, and why are cleverly told here.
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What a joy! It's clear how influential this story was. You've got cryopreservation, cyborgs, dying earth, deep time... all in one single short story from the 1930s. Reads like the kind of stuff Olaf Stapledon wrote around the same time but actually fun to read. It's a great initial vision of the sad death of our world. This one definitely felt Golden Age.
Read as part of the “Voices from the Radium Age” anthology.