Re: Mystery Books - another one!
Hello all,
My boyfriend has listened often enough to me describing a great sci-fi story I read ages ago, but yet can't remember the title or writer. I'd be really grateful if somebody could tell me so I can read it again...
A guy is woken up from deep freeze to find himself looking at a painted bust of Beethoven. The rest of the crew died during re-awakening, but a particularly intelligent robot has the idea of providing a familiar object to reduce the shock. At a later point, he is put back into suspended animation, and woken even more gently to find a planet with all its land covered with grass cultivated from a single grass seed found in his trouser hem. The robot keeps learning and serving him, and the story ends with him waking up to a planet populated with people who all look vaguely like his wife, inspired by the photo he kept of her. The robot by then is just a hovering entity above his head.
I await with baited breath...
Hello all,
My boyfriend has listened often enough to me describing a great sci-fi story I read ages ago, but yet can't remember the title or writer. I'd be really grateful if somebody could tell me so I can read it again...
A guy is woken up from deep freeze to find himself looking at a painted bust of Beethoven. The rest of the crew died during re-awakening, but a particularly intelligent robot has the idea of providing a familiar object to reduce the shock. At a later point, he is put back into suspended animation, and woken even more gently to find a planet with all its land covered with grass cultivated from a single grass seed found in his trouser hem. The robot keeps learning and serving him, and the story ends with him waking up to a planet populated with people who all look vaguely like his wife, inspired by the photo he kept of her. The robot by then is just a hovering entity above his head.
I await with baited breath...
