ARCHIVE 001 · PEOPLE & POWERS
THE
CHARACTERS
The future is enormous, but the story turns on a small number of people: a Sleeper who wakes into power, a revolutionary who knows how to use it, and those who force both men to answer for the world around them.
GRAHAM
A man from the nineteenth century wakes to discover that the future has turned his property into political power.
REVOLUTIONARY · STRATEGIST · RULEROSTROG
The man who understands how power works—and believes that someone must always control the machine.
THE MORAL VOICE OF THE REVOLUTIONHELEN WOTTON
Helen asks the question power keeps avoiding: what changed for the people who fought for the Sleeper?
GUIDE TO THE NEW AGEASANO
A practical companion who helps Graham encounter the future as a place rather than merely a political problem.
REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISERLINCOLN
One of the figures who brings Graham out of captivity and into a movement already fighting in his name.
AN UNRELIABLE HISTORIAN WITH THE INFORMATION GRAHAM NEEDSTHE OLD MAN
He knows how the Sleeper's fortune conquered the world. He just does not believe the Sleeper is sitting beside him.
THE OLD ORDERTHE COUNCIL
The trustees of a sleeping man's estate became the rulers of the system built upon it.