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When the Waker Sleeps

by Ron Goulart
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Description

You've heard of the mad scientist's beautiful daughter? Well, Nat Kobean made the mistake of taking a pass at the mad scientist's beautiful wife.... and thereby became a guinea pig for Dr. Dumpus's Dose. The dose was a serum that would enable one to travel into the future by naps of fifty years duration. The unsolved part of the experiment was that the sleepers would only stay awake a limited time before falling asleap again for another half century. So when Nat woke up fifty years later he had to act fast to find an antidote. But an antidote in a world so changed was a problem that required too much time to locate. So it was back to sleep and up again and back to sleep and up again..... And what kept happening to the world while the Waker slept makes a mad, mad version of the Wellsian classic of when the Sleeper woke.

What it’s like

ViolenceStandard
HorrorCreepy

Details

First published
December 1975
Pages
157
Reading time
About 3 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
D A W Books, Incorporated
Language
English
ISBN
9780879972103
Series
Standalone

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