When the Sleeper Wakes: Awakening in a Futuristic Dystopia: A Tale of Wealth, Technology, and Class Struggle in H. G. Wells' Classic Science Fiction Novel

Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement—and a world whose strange underlying economy is that it is all his private property. By inheritance and the compounding of interest, Graham the Sleeper has become the sole, final owner of everything and is revered as a leader, with a council that dictates to the world in his name.

This science fiction classic was called by Wells himself “one of the most ambitious of my books.” A stirringly prophetic novel, it envisioned flying, advertising, television, banking, labor organization, and totalitarianism, all within the framework of an exciting personal adventure story.

© 2011 Blackstone Publishing (Audiobook): 9781481578264
© 2019 Good Press (Ebook): 4057664137975

Release date

Audiobook: 21 July 2011
Ebook: 19 November 2019