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The Man Who Awoke is a science fiction novel by Laurence Manning. It was initially serialised in five parts during 1933 in Wonder Stories magazine. Later it was published as one complete novel.
It concerns the story of a man who puts himself into suspended animation for 5,000 years at a time and his ensuing adventures as he tries to make sense of the societies he encounters each time he wakes.
5000 A.D. Humanity staggers to save itself amid the world's littered, stagnant wreckage after what has become know as the great Age of the Wasters.
10,000 A.D. The world is dominated by the Brain - the immovable in purpose super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing.
15,000 A.D. The world is now so unbearable to face that people choose to program their choice of dreams and sleep their lives away!
20,000 A.D. the terrifying Age of Anarchy.
25,000 A.D. At last, humanity discovers the secret sought through the centuries – immortality.
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