- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Phoenix; New Ed edition (19 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0753820153
- ISBN-13: 978-0753820155
- Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 741,601 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Sleeper is just an ordinary man, no one special, just someone going about his everyday business. Until one day he awakes, and finds that the world around him has changed. No longer a nobody, he has been catapulted into the unenviable position of a pawn in a dangerous conspiracy where the stakes are high and the players shockingly intelligent. For this is not the world that the Sleeper knows, but a new and terrifying mutation.
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H G Wells was born in Bromley, Kent in 1866. After working as a draper's apprentice and pupil-teacher, he won a scholarship to the Normal School of Science in 1884, studying under T H Huxley. He was awarded a first-class honours degree in biology and resumed teaching but had to retire after a kick from an ill-natured pupil afflicted his kidneys. He worked in poverty in London as a crammer while experimenting in journalism and stories. It was with The Time Machine (1895) that he had his real breakthrough.
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One afternoon, at low water, Mr Isbister, a young artist lodging at Boscastle, walked from that place to the picturesque cove of Pentargen, desiring to examine the caves there. Read the first page
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H. G. Wells is renown sci-fi author, and I think this is possibly one of his lesser known books. I must admit this is my first Wells' book, so I have nothing else to compare to. I would say whilst I did enjoy this book overall, I found it a little slow in places.
Nonetheless its a brilliant tale about a man who falls into a trance (or coma) for 203 years, and finds himself rather alienated when he wakes up in the future. Wells does fantastically in plunging the reader, as well as the protagonist into a world where everything is unfamiliar and stumbles through the narrative, and slow does the future begin to unfold. The sleeper, named Graham, finds himself in a position of power in the future, however, there is a huge amount of unrest and it begins to become clear to Graham, that things are not as utopian as he thought.
What struck me what the "insight" Wells had into the future, and the progression of society, and I think this is reflected is some of the ideas presented in the novel. Also I quite liked how "steampunk" the future society is, and I think this will appeal to many readers.
Overall, an enjoyable novel, with some flaws and slow in places, but I think any reader of sci-fi will enjoy.
Nonetheless its a brilliant tale about a man who falls into a trance (or coma) for 203 years, and finds himself rather alienated when he wakes up in the future. Wells does fantastically in plunging the reader, as well as the protagonist into a world where everything is unfamiliar and stumbles through the narrative, and slow does the future begin to unfold. The sleeper, named Graham, finds himself in a position of power in the future, however, there is a huge amount of unrest and it begins to become clear to Graham, that things are not as utopian as he thought.
What struck me what the "insight" Wells had into the future, and the progression of society, and I think this is reflected is some of the ideas presented in the novel. Also I quite liked how "steampunk" the future society is, and I think this will appeal to many readers.
Overall, an enjoyable novel, with some flaws and slow in places, but I think any reader of sci-fi will enjoy.
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