Victor Rousseau 4 hr 28 min read

A man seals himself in a cylinder for an experiment in suspended animation, and wakes a century on, in a cold, regimented England remade by ruthless scientific rationalism.

Victor Rousseau's 1917 novel, illustrated by Joseph Clement Coll, is an influential dystopian social-SF tale. Vivid, dramatic, of its era. Read it for a sweeping sleeper-awakes romance, a sleeper roused into a chilling future of eugenics and tyranny, written partly in answer to Wells, and a landmark of early dystopian fiction.

In its time

Published in 1917, during the 1910s, lost worlds and interplanetary adventure.

Reading it

4 hr 28 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

Joseph Clement Coll