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"The permanent government now is the anchorpeople. They don't get elected, and year after year they're responding emotionally to this or that."
- Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
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| Weary Deep-Sleep | ||
| Phildickian old-sleep. |
| Takes the Navel direct to Fomalhaut, that after eighteen years of weary deep-sleep which is not quite sleep, more a hyponagogic, restless tossing and turning at low temp, slowed-down metabolism, he will arrive at Whale's Mouth, and oddly it will not be beer and skittles. |
| Technovelgy from Lies, Inc.,
by Philip K. Dick. Published by Fantastic in 1964 Additional resources -
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Heinlein called it cold-sleep in his 1941 story Methuselah's Children (1941), or eternity drug by AE van Vogt in Far Centaurus (1944). Dick called people in sleep stasis bibs in his 1964 novel Cantata 140.
See also astronaut sleep from Somnium (The Dream) 1634, by Johannes Kepler.
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