The Short Sleep
This story about people who thrive on four hours of sleep a day reminded me immediately of Nancy Kress’ Beggars in Spain, on which I mused a couple months back. Two thoughts here:
- Speculative fiction writers need to ramp up their game if it takes only about fifteen years for science to catch up–Dr. Ying-Hui Fu talks about genetic modifications or short-sleep-in-a-pill, as though offering a synopsis of “Beggars”
- I’m jealous; I sleep about six hours during the week–in bed at 10PM, up at 4AM–and seven on the weekends, and that’s sufficient for me, but I sure wouldn’t mind having a couple more hours of wakefulness on occasion. When you’ve got that pill, Dr. Fu, drop me a line!
