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What an incredible journey it would be if it were possible for a man’s glass brain to yield enough data to reconstruct his consciousness and awaken him in the far future! There must be some sci-fi story like this.

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Yes, can’t remember the name, but there’s an old short story about alien explorers who find a dead Earth with futuristic buildings.

They revive a knight who attacks them and gets killed, a hippie who they kill off after questioning, and finally a future human with psychic powers who steals the revival device.

A.E. Van Vogt wrote it. Brilliant author. I am sure one of the tales in "The Voyage of the Space Beagle" was the inspiration for "Alien".

Almost every week there's a discussion on hacker news that leads to a great idea for a sci-fi story and this is one of them.

Any compilations of such ideas?

I have jotted some of them down over the years. But I bet searching the full catalog of hacker news comments would yield a bunch of entries.

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