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Title: From the Borders of Devachan

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Title: From the Borders of Devachan Title Record # 3075514
Author: Sallie F. Toler
Date: 1987-05-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Webpages: babel.hathitrust.org
Language: English
Note: Believed to be among the first known uses of the term 'suspended animation' in science fiction.
Synopsis: A professor's daughter reanimates a Mayan mummy whose nostrils had been filled with a mysterious substance that causes suspended animation. After she revives him by kissing him and praying to Kwan Yin, he explains that his soul no longer fits in his body—but would she care to join him? The professor finds her body the next morning.
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Title Date Author/Editor Publisher/Pub. Series ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
The White Elephant, May 1897 1987-05-00 ed. Editors of The White Elephant Frank Tousey  
$0.05?$: US dollar
62
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mag  
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