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Once upon a time cryogenics was a hot subject, so to speak. Two novels published within a year of each other drew on cryogenics for their own comic or satiric purposes. I thought Thomas Berger’s Vital Parts (1970) was some kind of a masterpiece (as the Harper’s reviewer wrote at the time). It’s the third of Berger’s series of novels featuring Carlo Reinhart, who served the same purpose for Berger that Rabbit Angstrom seved for John Updike. D. Keith Mano also drew on cryogenics in his excellent The Death and Life of Harry Goth (1971)(now out of print).

As the video below demonstrates, the subject of cryogenics remains viable for artistic use. The video is funny all the way to the end, when it introduces a plot twist worthy of O. Henry.

Note the name of the company: Don’t Cry Cryo (“DCC”). If it were public, it would be a growth stock.