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![]() Would you like to increase your lifespan by a third? If you didn't need to sleep, you could get 8 extra hours of wakefulness out of every 24.
The story provides a fascinating and detailed vision of what it would be like to be a "sleeper" in a world of people who didn't need to sleep.
From the excellent anthology of original stories Futureshocks, edited by Lou Anders. Comment/Join this discussion ( 1 ) | RSS/XML | Blog This | Additional
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