Editing Morlock (section)

===''When the Sleeper Wakes''===
H. G. Wells also wrote a book called ''[[The Sleeper Awakes|When the Sleeper Wakes]]'' (1899).{{full|date=April 2025}} The book centers on a man who somehow falls asleep for several centuries, and wakes in the mid-21st century to find that his investments have done so well that he owns the world. An organization called the Labour Company has rounded up most of the world's lower class, forcing them to work underground in terrible conditions for the sole benefit of the rich upper class. It would seem{{clarify|to who?|date=September 2024}} that these people will later degenerate to become the Morlocks.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}} When the "Sleeper" encounters these (apparently) proto-Morlocks, he notes that they seem to be turning paler, as well as developing their own dialect of English.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}