The Individualists
- by Laurence Manning
- Novelette
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Time Phenomena
- English
- “The Individualists” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1933.
Another long sleep brings Norman Winters to sometime around AD 20,000 where each individual has his own mobile city that provided for all his needs.
—based on Wikipedia
“Yes. You called them cities,” she explained, “and that is essentially what this is. You had many thousands of people in each city, it is true—I suppose you could not afford many cities?—while we have a city for every inhabitant. But otherwise they are, I should imagine, much the same.”
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- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: circa AD 20,000
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- “The Individualists” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1933.
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- German.
“Die Individualisten” by Laurence Manning, in Der Jahrtausendschläfer (Heyne, February 1977).