When the Sleeper Wakes

The late Leon Stover, professor emeritus at the Illinois Institute of Technology, was the first to bring science fiction to the college curriculum and was the author of numerous landmarks of intellectual history. He lived in Chicago.

• Table of ContentsPreface     Introduction1 The Text    ; 2 The Prophet Belittled     3 Comic Inferno: From Sleeper to Schlepper     4 Nightmare: From Wells to Orwell     5 “Literature of Power”     6 Fascism     7 The Other Socialism     8 White, Red, and Blue     9 Totalitarianism     10 Equality and Human Rights     11 Oswald Spengler on the Years 2000–2200     When the Sleeper Wakes (1899)     (Annotated text of the First New York and London edition)     AppendicesI: “What I Believe” (1899a)     II: Preface to the 1910 Revision     III: Preface to the 1921 Reprint     IV: Preface to the 1924 Atlantic Edition     V: “The Labour Unrest” (1912b)     VI: “The World’s Greatest Revolution,” by John Brisben Walker (1901)     VII: On Aldous Huxley’s Response in Brave New World     Bibliography     Index

“Wells’s masterpieces get the red-carpet treatment here in these luxurious editions...academic collections supporting English departments should definitely invest in this volume”—Library Journal; “Stover is to be thanked for his years of Wellsian scholarship”—Public Library Quarterly; “Stover, by presenting the intellectual underpinnings of Wells’ work, has provided a powerful tool for understanding his writings, one sees them more deeply, without losing that earlier sense-of-wonder that originally opened the vistas of the young reader’s mind...a crucial guide to these classics of science fiction”—Fosfax; “two cheers for Stoverism...formidable scholarship...serious students of Wells would be foolish to ignore ‘Stoverism’”—The Wellsian; “Stover should be commended for a painstaking and meticulous editorial commentary”—Utopian Studies; “extensively annotated and analyzed by Stover...annotations are filled with insights into Wells’ writings and philosophy”—C&RL News.