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The Man Who Awoke

by Laurence Manning
Upon waking from a long sleep of three millennia, Norman Winters finds himself in the world of AD 5000 (more or less). Humanity staggers to save itself amid the world's littered, stagnant wreckage after what has become known as the great Age of Waste. There is a political rivalry between the younger generation opposing the older generation's proposed waste of resources that they (the younger generation) assert that they are entitled to.
— based on Wikipedia
Down in my lead-walled room I shall drink my special drug and fall into a coma which would on the surface of the earth last (at most) a few hours. But down there, shielded from all change, I shall never wake until I am again subjected to radiation.
DEBUT
“The Man Who Awoke,” Wonder Stories,[/em] March 1933.
VARIANTS
3 English variants
TAGS(SPOILERS!)
Time Periods Themes Groupings
TIME TRAVEL ITINERARY (SPOILERS!)
  1. From circa the 20th century ⋙ to circa AD 5000. Note: long sleep at the start of the story.
INDEXER NOTES (SPOILERS!)
  • Novelization—We count the 1975 book <em>The Man Who Awoke</em> to be a collection of the five Awoke stories rather than a novelization. There are only small changes from the 1933 publication.