The Sleeper Awakes
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Erscheinungsdatum
10.02.2026
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273 (Printausgabe)
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702 KB
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Englisch
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9781772097603
The Sleeper Awakes is a visionary and unsettling science fiction novel by H. G. Wells that explores the future of humanity through the lens of power, technology, and social control. First published in 1899 (and later revised as When the Sleeper Wakes), the novel stands as one of Wells's earliest and most ambitious depictions of a dystopian future.
The story centers on Graham, a man who falls into a mysterious, prolonged sleep in Victorian England and awakens more than two centuries later in the year 2100. During his long slumber, his accumulated wealth has grown unimaginably large, making him the legal owner of vast portions of the world. Upon awakening, Graham finds himself in a highly stratified society dominated by advanced technology, rigid class divisions, and authoritarian rule.
As Graham struggles to understand this unfamiliar future, he becomes a symbolic figure caught between powerful forces seeking to use him as a tool for control or revolution. Wells uses this futuristic setting to examine themes of capitalism, political manipulation, technological dependence, and the erosion of individual freedom.
Dark, prophetic, and intellectually provocative, The Sleeper Awakes anticipates many concerns of modern dystopian fiction. Its exploration of inequality, mass control, and the unintended consequences of progress secures its place as a foundational work in the history of science fiction and social speculation.
The story centers on Graham, a man who falls into a mysterious, prolonged sleep in Victorian England and awakens more than two centuries later in the year 2100. During his long slumber, his accumulated wealth has grown unimaginably large, making him the legal owner of vast portions of the world. Upon awakening, Graham finds himself in a highly stratified society dominated by advanced technology, rigid class divisions, and authoritarian rule.
As Graham struggles to understand this unfamiliar future, he becomes a symbolic figure caught between powerful forces seeking to use him as a tool for control or revolution. Wells uses this futuristic setting to examine themes of capitalism, political manipulation, technological dependence, and the erosion of individual freedom.
Dark, prophetic, and intellectually provocative, The Sleeper Awakes anticipates many concerns of modern dystopian fiction. Its exploration of inequality, mass control, and the unintended consequences of progress secures its place as a foundational work in the history of science fiction and social speculation.
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