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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.




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

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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.


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.

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