The Sleeper Awakes
ISBN:
9780722189955 (0722189958)
Publish date: 1980
Publisher: Sphere
Pages no: 204
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
Politics,
19th Century,
Time Travel,
Dystopia,
Utopia
When I started reading Jules Verne a number of years back I became increasingly interested in some of these pioneers of the science-fiction genre, and while many of us have heard of Wells' more well known books, after digging around the internet I discovered that there were quite a few other books t...
This is a lesser known work of Wells and not taken as seriously as some of his more well known works. Having read enough Wells, I was not surprised to see that it was considerably better than it is supposed to be. The book belongs to Wells' great period from 1894 to 1901, when Wells managed to ant...
I'm not entirely sure what to make of this book. It certainly has its flaws but there is something about it that I rather enjoyed.Graham falls into a Cataleptic trance for two hundred years (in which he does not age, nor require sustenance of any kind) and awakes into a dystopian society that is on ...