Avraham
August 9th, 2009, 08:10 PM
A friend asked me for help finding the title/author of a book he vaguely remembers. He tells me:
It's about a solider that is cryogenically frozen, then later digital stored, in order to maintain a trained army for future wars. I believe he starts as a Vietnam era soldier. After the first or second war he is "woken" up for, the soldiers find that the money they were supposed to be paid for the time in stasis has been revoked and they don't have the skills/basic knowledge to exist in the new world, so they go back into the program. Eventually, they are digitized and stored in memory crystals (or some technology like that). In the end of the book, the hero finds that the army has been restored to fight both sides of a way. He eventually destroys both copies of all the crystals.
Thanks!
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And it turned out to be "The Eternity Brigade" by Stephen Goldin.
It's about a solider that is cryogenically frozen, then later digital stored, in order to maintain a trained army for future wars. I believe he starts as a Vietnam era soldier. After the first or second war he is "woken" up for, the soldiers find that the money they were supposed to be paid for the time in stasis has been revoked and they don't have the skills/basic knowledge to exist in the new world, so they go back into the program. Eventually, they are digitized and stored in memory crystals (or some technology like that). In the end of the book, the hero finds that the army has been restored to fight both sides of a way. He eventually destroys both copies of all the crystals.
Thanks!
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And it turned out to be "The Eternity Brigade" by Stephen Goldin.