The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
1899
The Sleeper Awakes: A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
1899
A man sleeps for two centuries and wakes to find himself God. Graham, a radical pamphleteer in 1890s London, succumbs to a mysterious illness that steals two hundred years from his life. When he opens his eyes in the twenty-second century, he discovers he has become something beyond comprehension: a living legend, worshipped by millions, his image plastered across a world he no longer recognizes. The people adore him. The government answers to him. He is, in every sense that matters, the master of the world. But adulation is its own kind of prison. As Graham ventures beyond his gilded chamber, he learns that this utopia harbors darker secrets - that his worshippers are not all devoted, that his power is not absolute, and that the future holds dangers his Victorian mind cannot fathom. Wells constructs a world of towering machines and corporate control that feels eerily prophetic, exploring how societies transform and how easily a single individual can become a symbol rather than a man.
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“...fact takes no heed of human hopes.””
— H. G. Wells
“You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel”
— H. G. Wells
“After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.””
— H. G. Wells
“There is no liberty, save wisdom and self-control. Liberty is within--not without. It is each man's own affair.””
— H. G. Wells
“What right have they to hope? They work ill and they want the reward of those who work well. The hope of mankind - what is it? That some day the Over-man may come, that some day the inferior, the weak and the bestial may be subdued or eliminated. Subdued if not eliminated. The world is no place for the bad, the stupid, the enervated. Their duty - it's a fine duty too! - is to due. The death of the failure! That is the path by which the beast rose to manhood, by which man goes on to higher things.””
— H. G. Wells
“To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before”
— H. G. Wells
“The day of democracy is past," he said. "Past for ever. That day began with the bowmen of Crecy, it ended when marching infantry, when common men in masses ceased to win the battles of the world, when costly cannon, great ironclads, and strategic railways became the means of power. To-day is the day of wealth. Wealth now is power as it never was power before”
— H. G. Wells
“Restraint, soberness, the matured thought, the unselfish act, they are necessities of the barbarous state, the life of dangers. Dourness is man's tribute to unconquered nature.””
— H. G. Wells
“I wonder," said Graham.Ostrog stared.Must the world go this way?" said Graham, with his emotions at the speaking point. "Must it indeedgo in this way? Have all our hopes been vain?"What do you mean?" said Ostrog. "Hopes?"I came from a democratic age. And I find an aristocratic tyranny!"Well,”
— H. G. Wells
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