- The Far Arena
"The Far Arena" is a 1979 novel by
Richard Sapir , writing under the slightly modifiedpen name of RichardBen Sapir. It chronicles the adventures of Eugeni, a Romangladiator from the age ofDomitian , who, due to a highly unlikely series of events, is frozen in ice for nineteen centuries before being found by the Houghton Oil Company on a prospecting mission in the northAtlantic .ummary
Lew McCardle is a geologist working for Houghton Oil, which has reason to believe that there is oil in the far north. While running a test drill, the machine accidentally uncovers the frozen body of a man. Lew is given charge of the body, and he immediately calls his friend Semyon Petrovitch, who is a
Soviet scientist. Petrovitch, who specializes incryonics (but notcryogenics , as he explains) immediately takes the body to be revived, explaining that it is easier to treat such a case as alive until it is proven that life cannot be restored. The blood is pumped from the body, and various treatments are administered until, amazingly, it "does" come back to life. It spends the next fifteen days in a deep sleep, muttering to itself. The mutterings are recorded, but no-one can figure out the language. Finally, Lew McCardle, who has eight years of Latin, sends for a Catholicnun , who joins him and Petrovitch on their quest to sort out the mysteries of the body.Notes
*Lew McCardle's Latin training changes through the book. Early on, it says he had seven years; later, it says eight.
*This book, although reasonably well lauded when released, is long out of printas of 2005 .ee also
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Cryonics
*Ötzi the Iceman
*Haraldskær Woman
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