Operation Spring Dawn
Novelette 12,290 words Recommended by 2 award/anthology sources
The Great Freeze has left the Earth almost lifeless for 20,000 years, but robots have awakened a genetically modified human to start a warming process—if they can figure out how to.
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death
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.