Plastic Dolphins

A spacecraft carries the surviving germ of the human race, all there is of it, in a massive array of cryogenic chambers and journeys toward a new home. The Earth is likely about to be destroyed or otherwise rendered uninhabitable. Sent along as caretaker is a young child, GINNY, who must endure the entire journey in a state of suspended animation, only to be revived at the destination so she can execute the release and development of her fellow humans. But she's not in her hibernation chamber, so the controllers on Earth, who seem to have ways of manipulating Ginny's environment, fight to coax her to the chamber and essentially get her into bed. The problem is that the spacecraft is accelerating so fast that communication, even at the speed of light, is fast approaching impossibility - the electronics on board soon won't be able to process the incoming signals fast enough to execute a reply. If that happens before Ginny gets into hibernation, she will not be able to place herself into that chamber and activate it. She will live out a normal life - alone - then the human embryos will never be activated and the human race will be lost forever. So controllers FAYE and NELSON struggle to steer Ginny back to her sleep chamber by whatever means they can think of. Even if it means constructing an horrific nightmare to drive her toward where she needs to be. In the end, with only seconds left, they succeed. And now Ginny will sleep for 1500 centuries, only to awake in a land full of promise and begin again.