The Long Sleep into the Future: 6 Sci-Fi Classics
Six Classic Tales of Suspended Animation, Utopian Prophecy, and Dystopian FuturesBy Frederic W. Farrar, Edmond About, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, Robert Hugh Benson
Length76h 44m
About this audiobook
The Long Sleep into the Future gathers six foundational experiments in speculative fiction around the arresting conceit of prolonged sleep, suspended life, and awakening into altered worlds. Moving from satirical fantasy and social romance to dystopian prophecy, scientific adventure, and apocalyptic vision, the volume charts the nineteenth and early-twentieth-century imagination confronting modernity's promises and terrors. Its awakenings disclose transformed political orders, estranged technologies, altered bodies, and spiritual crises, making the motif of sleep a powerful instrument of cultural criticism. The contributors—Frederic W. Farrar, Edmond About, Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells, William Hope Hodgson, and Robert Hugh Benson—represent distinct national, religious, and intellectual currents within the emergence of modern science fiction. Their writings engage Victorian social reform, utopian planning, evolutionary speculation, imperial and technological anxiety, decadent apocalypse, and religious counter-prophecy. Read together, these varied voices reveal that futurity was never a single progressive narrative, but a contested field in which hopes for improvement coexist with fears of domination, isolation, and decline. Ideal for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an unusually rich comparative encounter with early speculative literature. It invites readers to trace changing narrative forms and political assumptions across a shared premise, while appreciating the dialogue between visionary possibility and cautionary warning.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length76 hrs 44 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJul 31, 2024
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Long Sleep into the Future: 6 Sci-Fi Classics
26Chapter 24
2Author’s Preface
27Chapter 25
3Chapter 1
28Chapter 26
4Chapter 2
29Chapter 27
5Chapter 3
30Chapter 28
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6Chapter 4
31When The Sleeper Wakes
7Chapter 5
32CHAPTER I. INSOMNIA
8Chapter 6
33CHAPTER II THE TRANCE
9Chapter 7
34CHAPTER III THE AWAKENING
10Chapter 8
35CHAPTER IV THE SOUND OF A TUMULT
11Chapter 9
36CHAPTER V THE MOVING WAYS
12Chapter 10
37CHAPTER VI THE HALL OF THE ATLAS
13Chapter 11
38CHAPTER VII IN THE SILENT ROOMS
14Chapter 12
39CHAPTER VIII THE ROOF SPACES
15Chapter 13
40CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE MARCH
16Chapter 14
41CHAPTER X THE BATTLE OF THE DARKNESS
17Chapter 15
42CHAPTER XI THE OLD MAN WHO KNEW EVERYTHING
18Chapter 16
43CHAPTER XII OSTROG
19Chapter 17
44CHAPTER XIII THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
20Chapter 18
45CHAPTER XIV FROM THE CROW’S NEST
21Chapter 19
46CHAPTER XV PROMINENT PEOPLE
22Chapter 20
47CHAPTER XVI THE MONOPLANE
23Chapter 21
48CHAPTER XVII THREE DAYS
24Chapter 22
49CHAPTER XVIII GRAHAM REMEMBERS
25Chapter 23
50CHAPTER XIX OSTROG’S POINT OF VIEW
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