Wells his incredible popularity and named him the 'father of science fiction. This dystopian work was first published in 1899, but Wells revised it in 1910 and published it as When the Sleeper Awakes. When the Sleeper Wakes is just one of the predictive, prophetic works that awarded H. Wells which is effectively a prequel to The. Wells is known for his masterful writing and his new, progressive visions for the future of society. When the Sleeper Wakes, also known as The Sleeper Awakes and other variations on that title, is a book by H.G.

In an unfamiliar world, who can you trust, if anyone? H. When the Sleeper Wakes is a story about oppression, betrayal, and mistrust. Confused and afraid, Graham teams up with a group of Rebels who help him escape his imprisonment in exchange for joining the revolutionaries in taking down the White Council. However, the White Council doesn't want Graham to take back his power now that he's awake. Instead, Graham is placed on house arrest, where he suddenly learns that he is the owner and leader of the world. About When the Sleeper Wakes Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer who is eagerly awaiting the twentieth century and all the advances it will bring, is stricken with insomnia. However, far from giving him real power, this leaves him a pawn in the hands of fighting factions. The White Council didn't expect Graham to wake up, and word spreads like wildfire that the 'Sleeper' has awakened, and people begin to demand to see him. A dystopian novel, it tells the story of a man who falls asleep in the year 1897, and wakes up 203 years later to find that the accumulated interest on his bank deposit has left him the richest man in the world and nominally its owner. While he's been asleep, much of the world has changed, including the formation of the 'White Council' who uses the fortune that Graham inherited to establish a new political and economic world order. A Londoner named Graham takes insomnia-curing drugs on a night in 1897, but when he wakes up, he's living in 2100. Wells' 'When the Sleeper Wakes' tells the story of Graham, an insomniac who takes a sleeping drug and doesn't wake for another two hundred years, only to find that the world has changed into a horrific nightmare.įuturistic, nightmarish, and riveting from start to finish, When the Sleeper Wakes is a dystopian tale by science fiction pioneer H.

When the Sleeper Wakes by H.G. Wells