In suspended animation for what might have been 40 years: "Time is distorted,jumbled, telescoped accordioned, but there is a sens of time even so." Were the scientists who invented this means of suspended animation aware of the mind's circumstance? The thoughts of an intelligent, isolated man for 40yrs, (suspended or not), and their effect on him, could be investigated much more deeply than a mere forty-year romantic obsession. (Scientists could include a method of sleep- education, but even un-aided, the mind would be greatly altered.) The astronaut could conceivably come back as the most enlightened being the world has ever seen , or the most insane, or both.
Review of The Long Morrow
