Time of the Great Death. A Novel

1971 Skinner, Claude M. (b. 1916). Time of the Great Death. A Novel. New York: Vantage Press. There is no chapter 14, but no pages are missing.

A sleeper wakes novel in which a eutopia has developed after nuclear war, civil war, and disease has reduced the world population by three-quarters and a new mentality, called Humanism, has developed that values community and helping others over competition. The wakened sleeper cannot adjust and finds a woman who wants a strong, masterful man, which suggests that there are others who do not accept the new way of life. At the end of the novel, Earth has reverted to the old ways under a world-wide dictatorship.