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fugue
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Hyperion
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One The Consul awoke with the peculiar headache, dry throat, and sense of having forgotten a thousand dreams which only periods in cryogenic fugue could bring.†
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The Consul vaguely realized that it was a great honor to be awakened by the Captain, but he was too groggy and disoriented from fugue to appreciate it.†
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The Consul rubbed his eyes and wished that he had been allowed more time to retrieve his wits from the cold grip of cryonic fugue.†
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The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†
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The Consul could recall seeing no other passengers during his rushed hour between rendezvous and fugue, but he had put that down to the imminence of the treeship going quantum, assuming then that the passengers were safe in their fugue couches.†
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Treeships rarely accrued more than a four-or five-month time-debt, making short, scenic crossings where star systems were a very few light-years apart, thus allowing their affluent passengers to spend as little time as necessary in fugue.†
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"There is no death in all the Universe!" intoned Martin Silenus in a voice which the Consul felt sure could have awakened someone deep in cryogenic fugue.†
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"We have a few hours before planetfall," he said, "and I for one plan to sleep off the freezer fugue when we're safely down and settled among the simple natives."†
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What the bishopric was offering Lenar Hoyt was twenty months in cryogenic fugue, a few weeks of in-system travel at either end of the voyage, and a time-debt which would return him to Pacem eight years behind his former classmates in the quest for Vatican careers and missionary postings.†
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Their transport, the aging spinship HS Nadia Oleg, was a pockmarked metal tub with no artificial gravity of any sort when it was not under drive, no viewports for the passengers, and no on-board recreation except for the stimsims piped into the datalink to keep passengers in their hammocks and fugue couches.†
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After awakening from fugue, the passengers-mostly offworld workers and economy-rate tourists with a few cult mystics and would-be Shrike suicides thrown in for good measure-slept in those same hammocks and fugue couches, ate recycled food in featureless mess decks, and generally tried to cope with spacesickness and boredom during their twelve-day, zero-g glide from their spinout point to Hyperion.†
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After awakening from fugue, the passengers-mostly offworld workers and economy-rate tourists with a few cult mystics and would-be Shrike suicides thrown in for good measure-slept in those same hammocks and fugue couches, ate recycled food in featureless mess decks, and generally tried to cope with spacesickness and boredom during their twelve-day, zero-g glide from their spinout point to Hyperion.†
Part 1
Strange to be tired after months of sleep, but that is said to be a common reaction after awakening from fugue†
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Even in fugue...the pain.†
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The group ate in silence, obviously suffering more than the usual amount of post fugue hunger, fatigue, and depression.†
Part 2
Moving slowly in the druglike languor of fugue hangover, the Consul bathed as best he could with only basin and pump, dressed in loose cotton trousers, an old canvas shirt, and foam-soled walking shoes, and found his way to the mid-deck.†
Part 2
Since most of the physical repair would be done in fugue anyway, it made some sense to let the old hospital ships work on the seriously wounded and the revivable dead.†
Part 2
You've been through resuscitation and renewal several times but you probably don't remember because of the fugue hangover.†
Part 2
Even through the disorientation of fugue state, he now remembered the painful therapy sessions, the long hours in the RNA virus baths, and the surgery.†
Part 2
The medic smiled as if this were a question he asked each time he came out of fugue.†
Part 2
The medical ward where he had awakened, beds, fugue tanks, intensive care apparatus...most of it expelled through the breaches in the spinmod's hull.†
Part 2
Hell, only a few hours earlier he had been in fugue and just a few ship-weeks before that he had almost certainly been body-dead.†
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As a result of these deprivations, I was able to recite all of Fitzgerald's translation of the Odyssey by the time I was six, compose a sestina before I could dress myself, and think in spiral fugue-verse before I ever interfaced with an AI.†
Part 3
Nor had she remembered that the reason people had waited for the Hawking drive to see the spiral arm of the galaxy is that in long-term cryogenic sleep-as opposed to a few weeks or months of fugue-chances of terminal brain damage were one in six.†
Part 3
During the four years that Rachel was in transit-a few weeks of cryogenic fugue for her-Sol found that he missed his daughter much more than if she had been out of touch but busy somewhere in the Web.†
Part 4
It was not possible to put her into cryogenic fugue in that condition...†
Part 4
"So she came through quantum leap without fugue?" demanded Sol.†
Part 4
She was unconscious in a way which shielded her quite as well as fugue state.†
Part 4
The doctors all say that Rachel could not survive cryogenic fugue.†
Part 4
No one experiences FTL travel without fugue state.†
Part 4
Rather like cryogenic fugue for us.†
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(1) (fugue as in: a three-part fugue)
classical music in which a simple tune is introduced and then extended and developed through some number of successive imitations
(2) (fugue as in: entered a fugue state)
a dreamlike state of altered consciousness
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)

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