With a mounting sense of dread Zhang looked down again at the clear cryotubes just below him, then at the ones hanging over his head. He noticed something he hadn’t seen before. All of those tubes, thousands of them – they were empty. How many colonists had boarded Persephone looking for a new life? How many of them had died without even getting to set foot on Paradise-1? How many of them had been dragged out of cryosleep only to be—
This is, yet again, something that's in a movie. This time it's Pandorum. I'm aware that there's nothing new under the sun, but there are several scenes/elements like this that seem plucked right out of movies or shows. We haven't risen to suspicious level yet, though.
Back to the passage, this situation would be an absolute nightmare. The saving grace here is that it apparently takes a super long time to unfreeze from cryosleep in this book universe so I'm not sure if these people would even be conscious enough to realize what was happening.
