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The Man Who Awoke 2

Master of the Brain

by Laurence Manning

After a second long sleep, Norman Winters wakes around AD 10,000. The world is dominated by the Brain, an inexorable super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing. Thanks to its cradle-to-grave supervision, human life is easy and comfortable, but what will happen when the Brain realizes people are superfluous?
— based on Wikipedia
Certainly. . . . the Great Brain is infallible. Who would want to act contrary to reason?
DEBUT
“Master of the Brain,” Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933.
VARIANTS
1 English variant
TRANSLATIONS
Translations to German
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Themes
  • Language Difficulties: The English language had not, of course, remained so completely unchanged as recorded in this narrative. Many new words had been coined and old ones forgotten. But in most cases the meaning was plain enough and long explanations and definitions which Winters had to undergo have been spared the reader by substituting twentieth-century words.
  • Long Sleep, Cryogenics, Etc.
Groupings
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From circa AD 5000 ⋙ to circa AD 10,000. Note: long sleep continued from the previous story.