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Old 03-14-2005, 08:28 PM
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It actually sounds vaguely like a short story from Read magazine, but in that one the guy was a real jerk (and a funeral director) and had himself frozen to wake up in the future to meet prettier and less-demanding women than the "present" offered, or something. (I read it over 25 years ago, sorry.) The kickers were that not only was society more egalitarian and the races more intermingled (so that the woman who greeted him upon his defrosting was "mannish" and café-au-lait skinned rather than the Swedish bikini team captain he was expecting), but that death was eliminated so he was completely out of a job.

Has anyone on staff has read Frederic Brown's short stories? The Brown books I have, from my parents, are so old that they're mostly held together by the other books on the shelf pressed against them.
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