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!

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  1. “The City of Sleep” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] May 1933.
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Laurence Manning

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  1. German.
    “Die Stadt der Schläfer” by Laurence Manning, in Der Jahrtausendschläfer (Heyne, February 1977).
    2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Laurence Manning
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . translated by Walter Brumm