# The Sleeper Awakes

_A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes_

By H. G. Wells.

"The Sleeper Awakes" by H. G. Wells is a dystopian science fiction novel published in 1899 and revised in 1910. A man falls into a coma in 1897 London and awakens 203 years later to discover he has become the world's wealthiest person. His fortune has been used to create a vast plutocratic order controlling half the world. Caught between rival factions and revolutionary forces, he must navigate a nightmarish future society where workers live in misery and his own role as figurehead threatens humanity's freedom. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Science fiction; London (England) -- Fiction; Time travel -- Fiction; Twenty-first century -- Fiction; Dystopias -- Fiction; Technological innovations -- Fiction

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- [Sleeper Awakes](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/1124) by H. G. Wells (8 h 14 min, English)

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