Definition of "cryosleep" []

• A deep sleep during which the body is stored at very cold temperature, to preserve it; cryogenic sleep. (noun)

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• "A good story, except for this: A teenage boy, going on an interstellar trip in cryosleep to a new colony takes a paper version of Charlotte's Web with him as his weight allowance."
• "Westerfeld's story is good and the right type, for example, but not sure I buy a 13 year old boy taking as his weight allowance an ancient paper book for much younger readers, when he lives in a future time that has working cryosleep voyages to distant stars for colony reasons."
• "Your first children will be born thousands of mears in the future, after you have awakened from cryosleep."