After the Sleeper
The Sleeper has fallen. His name still keeps the city running.
Graham slept for two centuries and woke to find himself master of London. Now his aircraft has fallen, but the orders that keep the city alive still require his name.
At the Council House, archivist Eliza Marr discovers an instruction in Graham's handwriting pointing to a missing estate schedule. It may place London's essential services beyond any heir's claim. The evidence is incomplete, and the people waiting for water, transport and grain cannot wait for a perfect verdict.
As Marian Vale is pressed to accept a city she has not claimed, a voice calling itself Graham returns to the public screens. Engineers struggle to keep the machinery working. Organisers demand a say in the decisions that govern their lives. Eliza must establish what the archive can prove before somebody else turns its silence into authority.
After the Sleeper is a novel of political intrigue, contested inheritance and the difficult work of building a city that belongs to its people. What happens after a ruler falls, when the systems that sustained his power remain?
Written by Lim Boon Chuan, this unofficial fictional continuation is inspired by H. G. Wells's The Sleeper Awakes.
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