I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

"I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon" is a short story by American writer Philip K. Dick.

The short story was first published in Playboy in December 1980, under the title "Frozen Journey".

In the story, a man (Victor Kemmings) regains consciousness during a failed attempt at cryosleep on board a spaceship.

The ship's artificial intelligence cannot repair the malfunction and cannot wake him, so Kemmings is doomed to remain conscious but paralyzed through the ship's entire ten-year-long journey.

Like most of Philip K. Dick's work, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon involves a questioning of what it is to be human and of what reality is.