CORPSICLE

CORPSICLE
   One of the wittiest items of sf TERMINOLOGY. The coinage, credited to Frederik POHL by Larry NIVEN in his essay "The Words in Science Fiction" (in The Craft of Science Fiction [anth 1976] ed Reginald BRETNOR), was first used by Niven in "Rammer" (1971). Formed on the analogy of "popsicle", a US ice-lolly, the word refers to a frozen dead person, preserved in the hope of resuscitation in a medically advanced future (CRYONICS).
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