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What Sci-Fi Gets So Wrong About Suspended Animation — And Why The Truth Is So Much Wilder

Mark Hill

created: Jan. 5, 2026, 2:30 p.m. | updated: Jan. 9, 2026, 2:38 a.m.

This problem was brushed aside by an early scene where our hero wakes from suspended animation. “Suspended animation doesn’t require hypothermia,” Vyazovskiy says. “You can be asleep and hibernating, but we’re interested in the states of awareness during torpor,” Vyazovskiy says. “The Three-Body Problem,” Vyazovskiy says, “depicts suspended animation in a very creative way where the body is desiccated, it loses all its water. But it’s anything but cryo, cryo will not be applicable.”So, how would Vyazovskiy suggest portraying suspended animation if James Cameron came calling about tips for Avatar 4?

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