Awakening over one thousand years after your death has turned into a living nightmare for a "Mr. Charlie". Cryogenically frozen, "Mr. Charlie" is brought back to consciousness by a vested minority not in the least bit concerned about his needs. Encased in plasteel, our unfortunate revived being is naught but an archaic brain - desirable in running mining machinery. Hell awaits the newly reanimated throwback from the twentieth century.

This novels started very well. The hook is the sheer horror awaiting a once ambulatory, sensate, and free being is a palpable reality residing in the minds of all. The alacrity and pace of the plot picks up in intensity when a robot picks up "Mr Charlie's" radio rescue message, and then sets out to rescue him for altruistic reasons unbeknownst even to his own programming. A journey of self discovery is set into motion for more than just the single trapped "Mr. Charlie". This novel irked me as the prose and originality of the storyline failed to impart a sense of empathic identification with the novel's central passive protagonist. A slew of subplots and overly tired, and jaded characters populated this novel. I finished reading this short novel appreciating one or two of its passages more so than the majority of other science fiction novels I have read, but could not forgive it is clunky passage of events and lack of atmosphere.

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