H. G. Wells ~5 hr read

In a far-future utopia, a man named Sarnac dreams the entire life of Harry Mortimer Smith, an ordinary Englishman of our own troubled, striving age, and lives his joys and sorrows to the end.

H. G. Wells's 1924 novel is a poignant utopian and social-SF tale. Humane, reflective, beautifully told. Read it for a tender, quietly powerful Wells, a citizen of a perfected future reliving a whole twentieth-century life in a dream, throwing the pains and struggles of our own era into moving, compassionate relief.

In its time

Published in 1924, during the 1920s, the pulp era proper.

Reading it

~5 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).