A review by kb_208
The Man Who Awoke by Laurence Manning

5.0

This is a really great classic sci-fi novel from even before the golden age. It seems to have aged really well. It's a more obscure author, but probably because he didn't write much aside from this, but I would put it up there with some of the best classic books. It follows Norman Winters, so invents a drug that will allow him to sleep for thousands of years at a time in an underground chamber. He resurfaces every 5,000 years to see what the future has in store. Oftentimes he is confronted with societal decay and hostility and must race back to his slumber to awaken 5,000 years later. It's a good and fairly quick read and well worth it.