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The Man Who Couldn't Sleep // Escapement — Charles Eric Maine
Note: at the time this was written in 1956, it was a Near Future genre.
The year is 1962. Inventor Philip Maxwell has just discovered psychotape - which can be played back for total reproduction of emotions of whoever has made the recording. Maxwell, who has happened on the device only through his research for a means of alleviating his total insomnia, is amazed when the Hollywood cinemogul Zakon takes a sudden and violent hand in exploiting the gadget.
That Zakon is no ordinary entrepreneur is soon evident, for he seeks nothing less than world control through the salting away of all the earth's drones in his "dream palaces" where the weak-willed can go and experience indefinitely the passions of others - like the luscious actress Verna Graham. Maxwell soon realizes he must check the all-powerful Zakon.
His attempt to do so, his involvement with three attractive yet startlingly different women, his near entrapment by his own invention - make a novel which English reviewers have described as "fascinating" and "enthralling," using "an idea with enormous and terrifying possibilities." Reader, enjoy yourself, but be advised you'll not soon get The Man Who Couldn't Sleep out of your system."
The year is 1962. Inventor Philip Maxwell has just discovered psychotape - which can be played back for total reproduction of emotions of whoever has made the recording. Maxwell, who has happened on the device only through his research for a means of alleviating his total insomnia, is amazed when the Hollywood cinemogul Zakon takes a sudden and violent hand in exploiting the gadget.
That Zakon is no ordinary entrepreneur is soon evident, for he seeks nothing less than world control through the salting away of all the earth's drones in his "dream palaces" where the weak-willed can go and experience indefinitely the passions of others - like the luscious actress Verna Graham. Maxwell soon realizes he must check the all-powerful Zakon.
His attempt to do so, his involvement with three attractive yet startlingly different women, his near entrapment by his own invention - make a novel which English reviewers have described as "fascinating" and "enthralling," using "an idea with enormous and terrifying possibilities." Reader, enjoy yourself, but be advised you'll not soon get The Man Who Couldn't Sleep out of your system."
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