One last sleep takes Norman Winters to about AD 25,000 where scientists have discovered to secret of immortality. But is Mankind ready for it? Immortality is frightfully boring without a purpose. Humanity scatters to the far corners of the cosmos seeking knowledge and experience, leading to a quest toward the meaning of it all.
—based on Wikipedia
We must make him young again—what a chance to try out the full cell-cycle!

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  1. “The Elixir” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] August 1933.
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  1. German.
    “Das Elixier” by Laurence Manning, in Der Jahrtausendschläfer (Heyne, February 1977).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Laurence Manning
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Walter Brumm