“When the Sleeper Wakes” is a 1899 anti-utopian science-fiction novel by the English writer Herbert Wells about a man who slept for 203 years and woke up in a completely changed London at the end of the 21st to the beginning of the 22nd century, where he became the richest man in the world. The main character wakes up and sees that his dreams have come true, and the future unfolds before him in all its horrors and ugliness.