He closed his eyes for a nap. He opened them two hundred and three years later — master of the entire world.
Graham falls into an inexplicable, unbreakable sleep in 1897. While he lies motionless, his accumulating wealth is invested and reinvested for over two centuries until, upon waking in a transformed London of towering arcades, mass surveillance, and engineered pleasure, he discovers he is nominally the richest, most powerful man alive — a figurehead ruler over a world run by a ruthless Council he never chose and cannot trust.
H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes is a prophetic vision of corporate control, media manipulation, and engineered inequality that reads as startlingly modern — one of science fiction's earliest and sharpest dystopias.
- An early blueprint for dystopian fiction, decades ahead of Huxley and Orwell
- A future London imagined with eerie, prescient detail
- A gripping story of power seized, wielded, and finally overthrown
Wake up to a future no one asked your permission to build.
