Definitions
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- noun science fiction A form of
suspended animation in which the body's functions are not merely slowed down but halted entirely.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Well, hot damn! If I hadn't put my own blog in hypersleep, I'd be shouting this from the blogging rooftops.
With Penguin's Viking Studio! Jessica Hagy 2007
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Ripley, the buff female protagonist in the film Aliens, spends 57 years in "hypersleep" - without aging - before being rescued.
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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A “been there, done that” sci fi horror film set on a spacecraft with crew members emerging from hypersleep to find themselves lost in space and outnumbered by grungy, mysterious creatures.
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Also, the ship is in disrepair and the hypersleep has wiped his memory.
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Utilizing the old sci-fi stand-by of hypersleep, every person onboard is laid in a pod Futurama-style and put into a temporary coma to make the multiple-lightyear journey.
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A “been there, done that” sci fi horror film set on a spacecraft with crew members emerging from hypersleep to find themselves lost in space and outnumbered by grungy, mysterious creatures.
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We have the hypersleep-induced psychosis of the title, a bunch of amnesiac characters lost in the bowels of an ancient and enormous spaceship, trying to figure out how they got there, where they're going, and how they're going to survive.
Meanwhile... sovay 2009
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This, combined with the coming hypersleep chambers, will mean that associates will no longer need to leave the building at all!
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For one, they're getting attacked by some hybrid mutant creatures that feed on the other human survivors that have recently awoken from hypersleep.
Archive 2009-09-01 Dart Adams 2009
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They watch each other's back in hopes of making it to the reactor core in time to save the ship & the rest of the thousands of humans onboard that have yet to wake from cryogenic hypersleep.
Archive 2009-09-01 Dart Adams 2009
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