The City of Sleep

by Laurence Manning

Release: May 1933
Format: Novelette
Genre: Science Fiction
Audience: Adults
Content: Time Phenomena
Original Language: English

Another long sleep for Norman Winters and another world, this time circa AD 15,000. People can now program their choice of dreams and sleep their lives away, so much so that the sleeping outnumber the living, and Winters needs help to stop the implosion of civilization.

— based on Wikipedia

Take our own single city, for the rest of the world is about the same, if not worse, how many people are alive . . . er. . . really alive and awake? Just four hundred and thirty by the last count. And these few people must feed themselves andprovide electrical energy and control the dream records for more than one million sleepers!