Perchance to Dream

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Perchance to Dream

by Richard Stockham

EN·~33 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

1 total

Perchance to Dream

33:36

Description

In a massive, humming factory where workers move like spiders across endless lines of steel, every breath seems synchronized to the clatter of gears. The overseer, known only as the Superfather, monitors a strange technology that programs the night’s visions, promising order through prescribed dreams. The atmosphere is sterile, yet a thin thread of rebellion flickers in the shadows of the machinery.

Twenty‑three, a lanky technician, has stumbled into a mistake that lands him in a stark interview. He admits to dreaming of an empty, death‑filled city when he forgoes the official dream cards, a nightmare that alarms his superiors. As the Superfather offers a demotion and new dream cards, the story pulls listeners into a tense clash between enforced conformity and the desperate search for genuine freedom.

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Language

en

Duration

~33 minutes (32K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net

Release date

Jun 17, 2010

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Richard Stockham

Richard Stockham

A mid-20th-century science fiction writer whose work turns up in public-domain collections and vintage genre bibliographies, with stories that lean toward dystopian and speculative adventure.

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