This frighteningly prophetic tale from the progenitor of modern science fiction remains as powerful today as when it was written-more than a century ago. Firebrand activist Graham falls into a drug-induced sleep in 1897 London-and is stunned to wake in the year 2100 to a world he does not know. But the world knows him. When word spreads that the "Sleeper" has awakened, it rocks the foundations of what the planet has become: a dystopian existence...

One of the founding fathers of science fiction, H. G. Wells is known for such landmark novels as The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau. In When the Sleeper Wakes, he sends a nineteenth-century man hurtling into an unfamiliar dystopian future… In 1890s England, Graham, a fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, takes medication for his insomnia and is plunged into a deep sleep that lasts two hundred years. He awakens in a domed...

Four young friends from Hell's Kitchen get into trouble and are sent to reform school, where they are sexually abused by guards. Years later, two of the boys are seeking revenge and rely on the other two boys to protect them.

"Fourteen year old Joshua Adams wakes from a fifty year sleep to find that he has escaped nuclear war, and that the genetically altered races of Earth no hail his awakening as the first fulfillment of an ancient prophecy."-- Back cover.

Estivation is just like hibernation - only it happens in summer instead of winter. Why do some animals settle into cool, snug spots and sink into a summertime sleep? Because it's too hot for their bodies to function, or their food is in short supply. Some estivating animals sleep groups; others rest alone. Some go on a long journey before they slumber; others hunker down right at home. From the pixie frog to the spotted turtle to the desert hedgehog,...

The collecting of comic books, including the robbery of a comic book store, is important to the story and to the relationship among the boys, cf. pages 9, 10, 19, 44, 46, 77, 79, 86-87, 89-93, 96, 146, 219, 355, and 369.

An FBI agent infiltrates an Islamic terrorist group in Los Angeles, California

Drifter John LeTour, delivery boy for the local drug baroness, is witness to a murder and finds himself at the top of everyone's hit list.

Seventeen-year-old narcoleptic Tom Lovett struggles against Tyler, his alter ego, meanwhile working with Pandora, a secret government agency, to destroy the mastermind that created him.