ARCHIVE 002 · NOVEL EDITION IN PROGRESS
AFTER
THE SLEEPER
A city has spent two centuries living in the name of a sleeping man. After his final flight, the people left behind must keep it alive without knowing who can give an order.
Original Sleeper Archive fiction following the end of Archive 001. The planned 25-chapter story is being rewritten as a full novel, chapter by chapter.
The Falling
Eliza Marr follows the evidence of Graham’s fall through the Council House.
Development outlines · Chapters 2–25 · Major plot spoilers
These short treatments preserve the intended story structure while the full novel is written. They are not the final prose.
The Empty Master
The offices of government keep functioning, but every door now opens onto the same question: who owns what the Sleeper owned?
Three Hours Without Orders
A city designed to obey discovers how quickly obedience becomes paralysis when nobody can issue a valid command.
The Ledger Opens
The Archivist discovers that Graham’s fortune contains a clause the trustees spent two centuries hiding.
The Heir
Marian Vale is offered the largest inheritance in history and immediately becomes dangerous to everyone who wants it.
The Moving Ways Stop
A transport failure turns a legal crisis into a physical one.
Engineer of the Spine
The people who keep London alive discover they have bargaining power no constitution anticipated.
The Lower City Speaks
The districts beneath the grand avenues decide that succession is the wrong question.
The First False Record
A convincing image of Graham returns to London and turns the archive into a battlefield.
The Black Seal
An extinct trustee protocol begins issuing commands from inside the city’s oldest systems.
A Government of Custodians
The emergency government discovers that temporary power quickly learns permanent habits.
The Archivist's Proof
Eliza turns a hidden clause into public evidence and makes secrecy impossible to restore.
The Organiser's Square
Nara turns protest into a civic mechanism and discovers that participation is harder than revolt.
The Commander of the Air
The surviving aerial fleet controls food routes, borders and the possibility of another war.
The City Divides
London stops pretending it has one government and begins living inside several overlapping ones.
The Second Graham
A synthetic Graham appears in real time and forces London to decide whether identity is evidence or performance.
The System of Names
The city learns that identity itself has become infrastructure.
Night of Three Orders
Three authorities issue three incompatible commands and London must choose which one to obey.
The Engineer's Choice
Arun is offered formal control of the city’s systems and chooses a structure that makes himself less powerful.
The Archive Burns
The attack on the central archive proves that a record kept in one place is only waiting to be destroyed.
The Unknown Record
A document with no provenance reveals why the Master hierarchy survived every revolution.
The Heir Refuses the Crown
Marian accepts the succession long enough to abolish what succession would have given her.
The City Without an Owner
London survives the abolition of ownership and discovers that freedom does not remove the need for decisions.
The Vote of the Ways
The city uses the very transport network built to organise obedience as the machinery of a new civic decision.
After the Sleeper
The Master is gone, the city is no longer owned, and the Archive opens onto a future Wells never wrote.
THE STORY.
ITS RECORDS.
50-record development map · Chapter 1 canon and game candidates
Archive 001 remains unchanged. Archive 002 is original fiction, not writing by H. G. Wells.