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The Sleeper Awakes

Author
H. G. Wells
Read by
Sebastian Blackwood
Language
English
Length
7 hours 31 minutes
ISBN
9781787369849
Published
23 April 2024
Imprint
Fantastica
  • time travel
  • dystopia
  • social revolution
  • wealth disparity
  • futuristic society
  • political power
  • utopia vs. dystopia
  • class struggle
  • awakening
  • societal change

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Description

Graham, an insomniac, succumbs to a drug-induced slumber, waking up two centuries later to discover he has unwittingly become the richest and most influential man in the world. The future, however, is bleak—a dystopian society where the elite oppress the masses under a pseudo-utopian facade. Thrust into the role of a messiah for the disenfranchised, Graham grapples with the moral complexities of his unintended empire, seeking to dismantle the very system that enshrines him, in a desperate bid for societal redemption and true freedom.

Author

H. G. Wells (1866–1946) was born in Bromley, trained in biology under Huxley, and turned that laboratory habit into fiction. The Time Machine sent a Victorian into deep time; The War of the Worlds brought the sky down on the Home Counties. He wrote as if the future were a social problem with monsters attached. The novels argue while they entertain. A draper's son who made scientific romance a public language.

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