Our narrator, Dr. Atwood, goes into a long sleep (because of an experimental anesthetic) and wakes in 2180 where everyone is peaceful living under an autocratic government that forbids strong emotion and says no to the doctor marrying the nurse he falls in love with, at which point he is disintegrated and reawakens in his own time.

Variants

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  1. “Rays and Men” by Miles J. Breuer, in Amazing Stories Quarterly, Summer 1929.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Miles J. Breuer