Books with: Main character wakes up many years in the future

[Sarah]

I'm looking for suggestions on any books about a character who goes into hypersleep or some kind of long-term sleep and wakes up to a vastly different future. Thanks!

[Gerd]

Philip Jose Farmer comes to mind, The Stone God Awakens (didn't actually read it, though, so I can't say if it's one of his better or worse stories)

Joe Haldeman's sequel to his Forever Free deals a lot with that idea - not hypersleep per se, but time dilation effects as I recall.

Arthur C. Clarke's 3001: The Final Odyssey deals with the secondary character from "2001" being revived a thousand years in the future.

[Brittany]

This happens in the series I'm reading now by Bella Forrest. The first book is A Shade of Vampire. Main character Derek asked his witch friend to make him sleep for eternity but she put an expiration date on his sleep and he wakes up after 400 years. It's pretty good, not sure if you were looking for paranormal or just straight sci-fi.

[Shanna_redwind]

Terraforming Earth is a bit of an odd one, but interesting.

[Sarah]

These all sound great - I enjoy reading how people might adjust to a vastly different future. Thanks!

[Shanna_redwind]

There's also Death of Sleep.

[☆Joycedale☆]

She's put to sleep for what is supposed to be 2 yrs and ends up being hundreds.

[Sandra]

Medair Her empire is about to lose a war and she is sent on a mission to find a legendary artifact to save it, and she finds it! But something happens and she wakes up 500 years later...to a world where her people were conquered long ago, she is a failed hero, and everything she believed in and was loyal to is nonexistent.

[Pamela]

Armageddon 2419 by Philip Francis Nowlan is the original novel about Buck Rogers who walked into a cave and a gas put him in suspended animation for 500 years. Armageddon 2419 A.D.

A supporting character in Robert Heinlein's Beyond This Horizon wakes up in the future after hundreds of years asleep. Beyond This Horizon

H.G. Wells wrote When the Sleeper Wakes about someone in suspended animation waking up after hundreds of years. When the Sleeper Wakes

[CraftyChara]

Across the Universe Amy and her parents cryogenically frozen on a space ship heading towards a new earth
(view spoiler)[. Amy wakes up seventy years to soon (hide spoiler)]

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

At the beginning of New Earth the spaceship crew (Earthlings) wake up from an 80-year cryosleep, which is the time it has taken them to arrive at the planet they're exploring.

[RavensScar]

Lucky Star by Odette C. Bell

[Scott]

And then of course there's Captain America.

[Pamela]

Multiple characters do this in Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. I recommend this book. Children of Time

[RavensScar]

Think the Mass effect Andromeda books might fit :)

[Amy*skye.rhyme]

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[Aerulan]

An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair.

[Rosa]

The Door Into Summer

[Keith]

The Sleeper Awakes by HG Wells - An early example of this kind of story

Manifold: Space by Stephen Baxter - Multiple characters are "beamed" across space at the speed of light such that they don't age during the journey and live far into their future. One character returns to Earth's solar system thousands of years after she left.

Hyperion by Dan Simmons - One main character, in his backstory, was deliberately sent on a long space voyage in suspended animation so that all his family debts would be paid off through interest on investments. (It didn't work.) He's thus chronologically several hundred years older than many of the other main characters.

[Michele]

Looking Backward
The Ice People
The Time Machine
Golf in the Year 2000
Enoch Soames
Armageddon 2419 A.D.
The Man Who Awoke

This one you don't actually find out they're in the far distant future until I think the end of the second or third book, so I'm putting it behind a spoiler tag: (view spoiler)[the "Wayward Pines" series, starting with Pines (hide spoiler)]

[Rainbowheart]

Sleepers, Wake
When We Wake

[Kaion]

Dark Orbit

[Ann aka Iftcan]

The Legend of Banzai Maguire This is the first book in a series. The series is written by 4 different authors with this author writing the first and last books. This one and the last one The Scarlet Empress are the only 2 with the MC's waking in the future.

As the little blurb on the second book says--you can get the series in 2 2 book compilations.

[Rainbowheart]

After Impact
A Long, Long Sleep
I Was a Teenage Popsicle

[Nora]

The Curiosity