The Sleeper Awakes & Men Like Gods: Dystopian & Utopian Fiction from the Father of Science Fiction

by H. G. Wells, Amanda Montaneda (Editor), Eric Flint (Afterword)

Overview

One man's hell is another man's heaven...

In these two classic stories from the father of science fiction, H.G. Wells reveals two sides of the same coin: dystopia and utopia.

The Sleeper Awakes

What if you took a sleeping pill and awoke two centuries years later to find yourself the wealthiest man in the world? Everyone and everything you know is long gone ... but you are simultaneously the most exciting and most unfortunate thing to happen in centuries?

Are you the Messiah or the Antichrist?

Men Like Gods

What if you took a mental health day, ready for some rest and relaxation, and suddenly found yourself in a different world?

Journey with Mr. Barnstaple to Utopia to see what millennia of advancement can bring to the future.

Here together in one volume are two seminal works that inspired George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, and others.

Afterword by Eric Flint.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781680572117
Publisher:	Wordfire Press
Publication date:	05/26/2021
Series:	Wordfire Classics
Pages:	440
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.13(d)

About the Author

Herbert George Wells is called the Father of Science Fiction because of his groundbreaking works in establishing the genre. His most influential pieces include The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, and The Island of Doctor Moreau. The youngest of four children, Wells was born in Kent, England in 1866 to former domestic servants. He became enamored with reading in his childhood while mending a broken leg. During his failed early career paths he still read extensively from the house library where his mother had returned to working as a servant. He became a teacher at Midhurst Grammar school and later won a scholarship to study science at what became the Royal College of Science in London. He joined the Debating Society there and developed an interest in philosophers and the reformation of society-specifically, the concept of socialism. He wrote for the school journal and published his first serialized fiction story soon after, a precursor to The Time Machine. A prolific writer, Wells dabbled in nearly every genre, but is best known for his science fiction, and is credited with predicting the invention of tanks, nuclear weaponry, aircraft, and even the nebulous concept of the internet. He was a four-time nominee for the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died at the age of 79 in his home at Regent's Park on August 13, 1946.

Date of Birth:

September 21, 1866

Date of Death:

August 13, 1946

Place of Birth:

Bromley, Kent, England

Place of Death:

London, England

Education:

Normal School of Science, London, England