“You cannot imagine what it means to a man—waking out of his life—to find himself the owner of the world.” — H. G. Wells What happens when a man falls asleep for centuries and wakes up to find the world irrevocably changed—and his name tied to an empire he never built? The Sleeper Awakes is H. G. Wells’s visionary dystopian novel that explores the dangers of unchecked capitalism, mass control, and the illusion of freedom. Graham, a man once ordinary, awakens in a future where he unknowingly became the richest and most powerful figure on Earth while he slept. But the world he inherits is no utopia—it is a mechanized society ruled by elites, where the masses are manipulated and oppressed. As Graham struggles to reclaim his identity and resist the machine of power built in his name, he must confront a terrifying question: Is he the savior—or just another cog in the machine? Wells’s haunting