Project Gutenberg 2010-05-26 Public domain in the USA. 89 Locke, Robert Donald Arcot, Roger Deepfreeze Produced from Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy January 1953. 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://book.klll.cc/files/32531/32531-h/images/cover.jpg Reading ease score: 72.9 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Science fiction PS Text Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Category: Novels 83613 2025-07-13T09:05:08.290533 text/html 80048 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/html 167762 2025-07-13T09:05:10.302537 application/epub+zip 168114 2025-07-13T09:05:08.667551 application/epub+zip 73585 2025-07-13T09:05:08.469559 application/epub+zip 210079 2025-07-13T09:05:11.699579 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 201795 2025-07-13T09:05:10.097606 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 108860 2022-09-15T05:07:40.779538 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 75034 2025-07-13T09:05:07.967618 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 74950 2010-05-26T07:38:46 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 18442 2025-07-13T09:05:11.825564 application/rdf+xml 24485 2025-07-13T09:05:08.534521 image/jpeg 4577 2025-07-13T09:05:08.502519 image/jpeg 184662 2010-05-26T07:38:46 application/octet-stream application/zip 30323 2010-05-26T07:38:46 application/octet-stream application/zip 196857 2025-07-13T09:05:08.328572 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog