Resurrection

A man revived into a distant, spacefaring future adapts to unfamiliar sights and customs — twin suns, robot attendants, and a different calendar — while learning that medicine has advanced from regrowing lost limbs to reconstructing whole organisms from residual matter. He is taught history and a new specialized vocabulary to explain how fragments retain a physical memory of an original body and thereby enable resurrection of those long dead. Conversations with a curious young woman frame his gradual psychological reorientation and the way he, in turn, imparts historical knowledge. He ultimately reveals that he was born in the Gobi Desert six thousand years earlier as Genghis Khan, highlighting the dislocation of eternal life.