sleeping-and-waking

Updated: June 14, 2025

The shoonoon were still wakeful and interested; Kwanns could go without sleep for much longer periods than Terrans. The lack of any fixed cycle of daylight and darkness on their planet had left them unconditioned to any regular sleeping-and-waking rhythm. "I just called in," Travis said. "Things aren't good, at all.

H. Beam Piper - Oomphel in the Sky