H. G. Wells is one of the founders of science fiction and a writer for whom the future has always been a way of talking about the present. His novels are bold intellectual experiments in which a scientific hypothesis becomes an excuse to talk about power, society, and human nature. "People as Gods" is a philosophical novel about the meeting of imperfect humanity with utopia. The characters find themselves in a parallel world where science has defeated poverty, wars and social inequality, and reason has become the highest value. But an ideal society turns out to be not only an object of admiration, but also a challenge: are people able to accept a world without fear, violence and power? Wells asks the uncomfortable question of whether man is too imperfect for his own paradise. The novel "When the Sleeper Wakes Up" complements this book with a dark and disturbing vision of the future. The awakening of a man from the 19th century in the world of the coming centuries turns into the discovery of a society where technological progress is juxtaposed with a brutal social hierarchy. This is a story about power, manipulation, and the price humanity pays for the illusion of order.