The Worthing Chronicle

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A revised version of Hot Sleep (1979).

Jason Worthing was a telepath, and the best of the ark captains sent to seed humankind anew on a hundred new worlds. He vowed that his new world would be different from the stagnant one he had fled. He established his colonists and his descendants; and when he was sure that they would survive, he sealed himself in the last somec chamber in all the galaxy, triggered to awaken him when his world had built a new civilization.

He slept for fifteeen thousand years, And when he awoke, it was to a future he had never dreamed of...

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