than his power of lending freshness and vitality to some well-worn formula of fiction. “Even in the 21st century, Wells still speaks to our fears and dreams.” - The Washington Post Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. He awakens in a domed twenty-second-century London in which he has become-due to the compound interest on his bank accounts-the richest man in the world.īut as a nightmarish caste system is revealed, Graham realizes all his worst fears for the future have come to fruition, especially when he discovers a lower class of workers who spend their entire lives underground-a species that will soon evolve into the Morlocks of Wells’s The Time Machine. Graham, the sleeper of the title, falls into a cataleptic trance in 1897. In 1890s England, Graham, a fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, takes medication for his insomnia and is plunged into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. In this story, later rewritten as The Sleeper Awakes, the hero Graham falls asleep in the present and wakes over two hundred years later, in a world of. He wakes to a London encased in a glass dome, in which the Victorian class system.

In When the Sleeper Wakes, he sends a nineteenth-century man hurtling into an unfamiliar dystopian future . . . First edition of Wellss dystopian novel depicting our contemporary world in a state of highly inflamed distension. Graham will survive on life support for 203 years, suddenly waking in 2100. Wells is known for such landmark novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. One of the founding fathers of science fiction, H. From the author of The Invisible Man and The War of the Worlds: “Everyone who has ever read When the Sleeper Wakes remembers it” (George Orwell). The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian science fiction novel about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed.

When the sleeper wakes