Project Gutenberg 2010-05-26 Public domain in the USA. 58 Locke, Robert Donald Arcot, Roger Deepfreeze Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Deepfreeze" by Robert Donald Locke is a science fiction novel written in the early 1950s. The story explores themes of survival and betrayal against the backdrop of a dying Earth plagued by a catastrophic epidemic. The novel follows the journey of Edwin Dollard, a wealthy industrialist who believes he can escape the impending doom of humanity and establish a new empire on Venus. The plot revolves around Dollard's desperate attempt to flee Earth as it succumbs to chaos. He collaborates with his trusted advisor, Garth, but ultimately betrays him, believing he can survive alone. Dollard's plans go awry when Garth sabotages his escape, leading to an accident in space that leaves Dollard trapped in a failing spacecraft. Deciding to undergo a radical method of preservation, he opts for deep-freezing in hopes that some future civilization will revive him. However, when he awakens millennia later, he finds himself a curiosity and ultimately prey for an alien species that has replaced humans on Earth, highlighting the story's dark irony and moral undertones. (This is an automatically generated summary.) http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32531/32531-h/images/cover.jpg en Science fiction PS Text Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 83476 83467 2024-10-14T03:39:57.540602 2023-09-14T08:38:23.573076 text/html text/html 80048 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 184662 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 167728 2024-10-14T03:39:59.628606 application/epub+zip 168165 2024-10-14T03:39:57.934607 application/epub+zip 73606 2024-10-14T03:39:57.733741 application/epub+zip 210099 2024-10-14T03:40:01.191588 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 201795 2024-10-14T03:39:59.424577 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 108860 2022-09-15T05:07:40.779538 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 75034 74931 2024-10-14T03:39:57.334584 2023-09-14T08:38:23.419075 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 74950 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30323 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 18797 2024-10-14T03:40:01.317595 application/rdf+xml 24485 2024-10-14T03:39:57.796631 image/jpeg 4577 2024-10-14T03:39:57.765592 image/jpeg 196819 2024-10-14T03:39:57.577615 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog