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When the Sleeper Wakes
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A science fiction novel in which a man falls into a coma and wakes 200 years later to find he has become the legal owner of the world, now transformed by technology and social change. Suitable for readers interested in early speculative fiction and dystopian visions of the future.
H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Herbert George Wells was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today for his groundbreaking science fiction novels; he has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to Jules Verne and Hugo Gernsback.
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