Jim Harmon 28 min read

If it was happening to him, the superintendent of Dreamland could take it, but what if he was happening to it? Councilman Coleman's morning visit brings worse trouble than he'd imagined.

Jim Harmon's 1958 story spins a disorienting alternate-history and social-SF tale from a man who puts people 'to sleep.' Clever, unsettling golden-age SF. Read it for a story that twists reality around its weary narrator until he can't tell who is dreaming whom.

In its time

Published in 1958, during the 1950s, post-war optimism meets cold war anxiety.

Reading it

28 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

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