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It was meant to be a great day. Several centuries into the future, the world has finally come together under a single government, the Executive Committee. They provide for the rest of humanity, most of whom live in huge arcologies - enormous tower block cities. The New Argo, has been sent to colonise a distant planet - code-named Gamma Six. The day it got there should have been a great one for humanity. Instead, upon reaching the planet, the New Argo blows up. But why don't the members of the Executive Committee want to investigate? And what really happened to the New Argo? These are the questions that Lize Carr, youngest member of the Committee, wants answered. When she employs private detective Kem Logan to investigate she unwittingly starts a chain of events that will mean danger for a great many people, including Kem and herself.

Twenty years after the Supers started showing up, the world is a mess. Progress has stagnated and the global powers are locked in a struggle over dwindling resources. When Ashley Zeno joined the Department of Super Persons, she hoped that she could make a difference. Unfortunately, she has found it to be nothing more than a pointless bureaucracy. Now, she is in a position to make choices that will determine not only her own future, but perhaps that of the entire world.

The Sleeper Awakes is a dystopian novel by H. G. Wells about a man who sleeps for two hundred and three years, waking up in a completely transformed London, where, because of compound interest on his bank accounts, he has become the richest man in the world. A fanatic socialist and author of prophetic writings, the main character awakes to see his dreams realized, and the future revealed to him in all its horrors and malformities.