When the Sleeper Wakes

<p> Critics view <I>When the Sleeper Wakes</I> as a prototype of the anti-utopian novel a genre developed by Zamyatin Huxley and Orwell into nightmare futures associated with the totalitarian age and the moral horrors of fascism and communism. Annotated by the world's leading Wellsian scholar in <I>Sleeper</I> is found a greater measure of artistry and characterization than is usually accorded it. As a complex work combining technological with social speculation <I>Sleeper</I> is unmatched for canniness in the history of futuristic literature. Indeed its aeronautical details influenced the Wright Brothers in the design of their flyer and the novel predicts the promotion of airplanes as a weapon a prophecy dramatically fulfilled in the twentieth century. This exhaustive critical edition features a lengthy introduction appendices bibliography and index and a frontispiece taken from the original 1899 edition.</p>