somec

"After I sleep on somec, will I have any trouble waking up?"

Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

Then the somec was injected, and it swept through him, taking consciousness with it, and Jerry realized with a shock of recognition that this, too, was death: but a welcome death, and he didn't mind.

Flux Tales of Human Futures Card, Orson Scott 1990

They tried a control group, to see if any residual memories did, in fact, remain after the somec.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

So she circulated, and graciously met the young girls who were just getting to somec, and the fops and fags who hung about the court, and the old men and women who had first met her a few centuries ago when they were young.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

When Bergen woke from his first time under somec, he learned from a kindly man in the Sleeproom that his father had died only a few days after Bergen had left home, and his mother had been murdered by a lover two years later.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

When Bergen turned twenty, somec came to their level of society.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

The U.S. President didn't, and the somec story was never noticed.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

Someday soon a ship will come to Answer, he realized, will come with an inspection team from the department of colonization and - declare us ready to enter the Empire on equal status, and suddenly somec will come, and I will be put on a high level, and those just under me a lower level, and so on until the majority of the people get no somec at all.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

It occurred to her (it always had before, too, but she didn't know it) that she must have done this same thing twenty-two times before, because she had used somec that many times.

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979

"But -- haven't they woken up any of the people who've gone on somec?"

Capitol Card, Orson Scott 1979