When Freemen Shall Stand

1943. chemist and soldier Stephen Duane has one goal: test his revolutionary anesthetic gas and end the war. But when a Nazi spy interrupts his experiment, the machine malfunctions and hurls him and his assistant Chuck Lafferty thousands of years into a future Earth that no longer belongs to humanity. They've become Slumberers, sleeping gods revered by a civilization that worships the few humans who remained behind. Venusians rule the world. The human race has been hollowed out, gentled into submission across millennia. Now Duane must decide: accept the comfortable lie of divinity, or remember what freedom actually costs. This is a story about what happens when a man from the bloodiest century in human history wakes up in a paradise designed to make him forget he ever wanted to fight.