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The Sleeper Awakes

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The Sleeper Awakes	comment	Struck by a strange ailment, a Victorian gentleman called Graham falls into a sudden coma. When he wakes up 203 years later, he discovers the trust set up by executors of his estate has grown so much that he is now the owner of almost everything on the planet. Under his name his trustees rule the planet, bringing in an age of total peace and startlingly advanced technology, but at a steep price — democracy is dead, the rich are brainless and hedonistic while the poor are all but slaves overseen by brutal military police.Broken free from the trustees prison by a politician called Ostrog, Graham finds himself stuck in the middle of an uprising as Ostrog promises to restore Graham's power and bring an end to the council's reign.Not one of H. G. Wells's best known works, The Sleeper Awakes (originally published as When The Sleeper Wakes) has nevertheless survived in print to the present day, and remains one of his classic science-fiction pieces. George Orwell claimed it explicitly as an influence on Nineteen Eighty-Four, and it went on to (very) loosely inspire the Woody Allen comedy Sleeper.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_1e7159cf	type	Propaganda Machine
The Sleeper Awakes / int_1e7159cf	comment	Propaganda Machine: The Babble Machines, which shout a mixture of news and ridiculous slogans ("Galloop, Galloop!").
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_1ed1bead	type	Domed Hometown
The Sleeper Awakes / int_1ed1bead	comment	Domed Hometown: London.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_3114c1e5	type	Ramming Always Works
The Sleeper Awakes / int_3114c1e5	comment	Ramming Always Works: Airplanes ramming other airplanes. Yeah...
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Sleeper Awakes / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Well, the story slams to a halt when Graham's plane probably crashes (the plane was out of control but still functional, and it's possible he managed to pull out).
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_39ba2515	type	Advert-Overloaded Future
The Sleeper Awakes / int_39ba2515	comment	Advert-Overloaded Future: The churches we see are the main example of this - the temple district of London is an eye-searing mixture of advertisements promising salvation, ranging from posters to huge banners to giant flaming letters.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_49de98db	type	Dilating Door
The Sleeper Awakes / int_49de98db	comment	Dilating Door: Possibly the Ur-Example - in the futuristic society, doors are segments of seemingly solid walls that can nevertheless be rolled up like curtains.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_4ef62a4d	type	Full-Circle Revolution
The Sleeper Awakes / int_4ef62a4d	comment	Full-Circle Revolution: As far as Graham is concerned, since Ostrog's policies toward the poor are perhaps worse and certainly no better than those of the White Council. From Ostrog's point of view, it's more of a Meet the New Boss.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_53833817	type	Rip Van Winkle
The Sleeper Awakes / int_53833817	comment	Rip Van Winkle: The story begins when Graham falls asleep for 203 years.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Sleeper Awakes / int_5539b84f	comment	Corrupt Church: With rapid transit making the old parish churches obsolete, the religions have all agglomerated their churches and temples into one huge shopping district, promising to sell salvation. Theosophy is the only real-world religion that gets called out. The revived slave trade, meanwhile, comes from a heavily warped version of the Salvation Army, bought out by Graham's trust and turned into the Department of Labour, the de facto owner and master of the world's poor.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_60441d9	type	Future Slang
The Sleeper Awakes / int_60441d9	comment	Future Slang: Most of it goes unexplained, as does the bizarre new half-Latin, half-Greek phonetic alphabet. We do however learn that "Word" means a soundbite, and a "capillotomist" is a barber.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Sleeper Awakes / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: The story was written just as Wells began to shift from science fiction to socialist literature, and it shows.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_66755d29	type	Author Avatar
The Sleeper Awakes / int_66755d29	comment	Author Avatar: Graham is a technology-loving socialist-radical artist, much like Wells himself.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_75b53c77	type	Arcology
The Sleeper Awakes / int_75b53c77	comment	Arcology: The structures that stand where the cities used to be appear to be the earliest description of what would eventually be labelled arcologies.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Sleeper Awakes / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: One interpretation of the ending. Several of Ostrog's planes full of armed police have landed, and the only plane capable of destroying the others, carrying Graham, has crashed. On the other hand, Graham's plane is out of control but still functional, so he might have managed to pull out. And only a few of Ostrog's planes made it, meaning the troops he managed to land would have been outnumbered at LEAST twenty to one.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_8e5c28c	type	Crystal Spires and Togas
The Sleeper Awakes / int_8e5c28c	comment	Crystal Spires and Togas: Quite probably one of the Trope Makers. Everyone wears togas and jumpsuits, architecture is heavily based around columns and Greek-style statues, and the world is ruled by the Council.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_92ac1ba0	type	Alternative Number System
The Sleeper Awakes / int_92ac1ba0	comment	Alternative Number System: The people of the future use base 12. Graham gets it explained to him when someone mentions a yearly salary of "sixdoz lions" (lions being their currency).
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Sleeper Awakes / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: After the revolution London is still tense, and discontent with Ostrog's rule bubbles under the surface, but it remains peaceful. Then Ostrog announces that thousands of military police and torturers are being flown in to police London. A few hours later, London is in uproar and Ostrog has been forced out. In Wells's own words "The thesis is that he is a man of enormous knowledge and capacity. But he bungles his situations incredibly".
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_b2fca592	type	Nu Speling
The Sleeper Awakes / int_b2fca592	comment	Nu Speling: The future has a new alphabet, based on a mixture of Latin and Greek, which is supposed to be phonetic.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_b7c85c86	type	Free-Love Future
The Sleeper Awakes / int_b7c85c86	comment	Free-Love Future: Hinted at - as a proper Victorian gentleman, Graham wants no part.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_c98b7916	type	Messianic Archetype
The Sleeper Awakes / int_c98b7916	comment	Messianic Archetype: Graham, who gets chapter-long conversation filled with religious imagery. He is, after all, lord of the world and has risen again as the savior of his people. He's also portrayed as something of a King Arthur figure, another classic messianic character. Graham, for his part, tries to puncture this idea, claiming he won't bring a "millenium".
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_d51158ee	type	Revised Ending
The Sleeper Awakes / int_d51158ee	comment	Revised Ending: When The Sleeper Wakes makes it fairly clear Ostrog will be overthrown. When it was edited as The Sleeper Awakes, these references were cut, and it's no longer clear who wins the battle for London.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_e4b69188	type	Very Loosely Based on a True Story
The Sleeper Awakes / int_e4b69188	comment	Very Loosely Based on a True Story: Possibly based on the story of Peter Thellusson, who died in 1797 and whose will stipulated that the bulk of his money (£600,000, quite a sizable fortune back then) be held in trust for his eldest surviving great-grandson — to be inherited only when all his sons and grandsons had died. This caused a sensation, as it was estimated that it could be easily 70 years before the as-yet-unborn child came into his money, and by then the legacy might amount to as much as £140,000,000 — an unimaginably vast sum in the 18th century. As a result, in 1800 a law was passed forbidding money left in a will to be tied up for longer than 20 years after the death of the testator.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_e77e2787	type	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future
The Sleeper Awakes / int_e77e2787	comment	We Will Use Manual Labor in the Future: The book subverts this idea — although the future society has a huge slave class, Graham realizes that the slaves are weak and lack muscle. Their role is simply to supervise the machinery.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Sleeper Awakes / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: In the revised version, we never find out whether the revolution managed to completely topple Ostrog.
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Sleeper Awakes / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: Occasionally suggested — if Graham has been asleep for 203 years, how can he know he isn't still asleep?
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The Sleeper Awakes / int_edb6dd67	type	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future
The Sleeper Awakes / int_edb6dd67	comment	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: "Euthanasy". Played with, to an extent — euthanasia is kept expensive so that only the rich can have it; the poor have to stay in servitude.
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