When the Sleeper Wakes
by H. G. Wells
Sleeping is just an ordinary person, no one is special, only someone is doing their daily chores. Until one day he wakes up and sees that the world around him has changed. No one has been thrown into the unenviable position of a pawn in a dangerous conspiracy where the stakes are high and the players are shockingly smart. Because this is not the world that the sleeper knows, but a new and terrible mutation. Ten years after the first publication of this novel, Wells completely revised it and published it as The Sleeper Awakes.