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. On the other hand, Graham's plane is out of control but still functional, so he might have managed to pull out. Several of Ostrog's planes full of armed police have landed, and the only plane capable of destroying the others, carrying Graham, has crashed. Bolivian Army Ending: One interpretation of the ending.Author Avatar: Graham is a technology-loving socialist-radical artist, much like Wells himself.Author Appeal: The story was written just as Wells began to shift from science fiction to socialist literature, and it shows.Arcology: The structures that stand where the cities used to be appear to be the earliest description of what would eventually be labelled arcologies.All Just a Dream: Occasionally suggested - if Graham has been asleep for 203 years, how can he know he isn't still asleep?.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.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. 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. 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.īroken 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. 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. Struck by a strange ailment, a Victorian gentleman called Graham falls into a sudden coma.
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