![]() This version of the first book is a longer one than that usually published. Wells and the World State, I sent Huxley a letter asking him if Brave New World owed any- thing to When the Sleeper Wakes. "I'd read The Time Machine and seen the first movie version as a kid, but the other two novels were new to me. This science fiction classic was called by Wells himself “one of the most ambitious of my books.” A stirringly prophetic novel, it envisioned flying, advertising, television, banking, labor organization, and totalitarianism, all within the framework of an exciting personal adventure story. By inheritance and the compounding of interest, Graham the Sleeper has become the sole, final owner of everything and is revered as a leader, with a council that dictates to the world in his name. He wakes two hundred years later, still youthful, to an age of great marvels and scientific achievement-and a world whose strange underlying economy is that it is all his private property. Graham, an 1890s radical pamphleteer, was a young man when he finally resorted to medication for his insomnia and fell into a deep sleep. ![]()
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