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RUDE AWAKENING?



HIBERNATE NOW, resuscitate later.

This is the plum promised people with plenty of money who dream (dream is the word) of
laying down their dissatisfied bodies in the present (of the 21st century) and reawakening in
the 22nd, 23rd or 24th.

But things are not what they seem and behind this hibernation lure is a scheme to conquer
the world. No less!

The promise: a happy future. The plot: treason to all mankind!

The resolution of the plot: to discover it you must readтАФ




THE SLEEPERS


1/ EVIL SECRET OF THE ISC



The incessant gurgling of the cell-plasma utterly enervated Dunbee. The container was close enough to
touch if he raised his hand. Instead he dug his fingers into the sandy soil in silent despair, then groped
trembling over the cracks in the ground and shrank away from a clammy rock.

Maurice Dunbee groaned in pain as he tried in vain to push his aching and tired body out from under the
tank. His determination to escape grew stronger and, breathing heavily he managed to crawl a few
meters, haunted by the gurgling and bubbling of the liquid in the huge vats all around him.

They had turned off the lights and the cave was completely dark. It was only a question of time when
they would catch up with him and take him back. He hung his head in awareness of his physical
weakness that frustrated his will to fight on. Then he continued to crawl forward despite his fear that his
efforts were futile. A sharp acid odour pervaded the musty air of the cave; perhaps they had injected a
narcotic gas so that he could be seized without the risk of resistance.

With a wan smile he thought that this was merely one more incident in the series of failures which had
been typical of his life to date. Here he cowered again: Maurice Dunbee, the weakling!

He pushed himself up on his arms and listened. Were they already coming with their paralysers? Was the
end near?

Dunbee heard a noise coming from the impenetrable darkness. A shrill hard voice made his blood
freeze. "Dunbee! Resistance is useless. You must give yourself up! Two of our attendants will come to
assist you, Dunbee!"