“Fatigue bent her like decades, and she was overjoyed to see the blinking yellow sign of a Napcap rental facility. A few meager credits remained on her debit card. She would invest them in a decent snooze. She punched her card into the Napcap's slot. The lid lifted and she crawled inside. It shooshed down. The inside received her as a womb... Ordinary human sleep varies greatly in depth and quality, a vestigial remembrance of the time when Homo habilis need to cycle between deep sleep and near waking, lest in a comalike slumber he fall prey to carnivores. In the napcap a client became an instant yoga master, able to stay in the deepest states for hours, increasing the value of each minute's rest manyfold.”

From “Saturn's Race” by Larry Niven (w/S. Barnes). Published by Tor in 2000.

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