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    Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse
    Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse
    Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse
    Audiobook9 hours

    Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse

    Written by H. G. Bells

    Narrated by Justine Eyre, Saskia Maarleveld, Tim Campbell and

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    For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, a worldwide plague of insomnia creates a devastating new apocalypse.

    Remember what it’s like to last an entire night without sleep? That dull but constant headache. The feeling of your brain on edge. How easily irritated you were. How difficult it was to concentrate, even on seemingly menial tasks. It was just a single restless night, but everything felt just a little bit harder to do, and the only real comfort was knowing your head would finally hit the pillow at the end of the day, and when you awoke the next morning everything would return to normal.

    But what if sleep didn’t come the next night? Or the night after? What might happen if you, your friends and family, your coworkers, the strangers you pass on the street, all slowly began to realize that rest might not ever come again?

    How slowly might the world fall apart? How long would it take for a society without sleep to descend into chaos?

    Sleep Over is collection of waking nightmares, a scrapbook of the haunting and poignant stories from those trapped in a world where the pillars of society are crumbling, and madness is slowly descending on a planet without rest.

    Online vigilantism turns social media into a deadly gamble.

    A freelance journalist grapples with the ethics of turning in footage of mass suicide.

    A kidnapped hypnotist is held hostage by those at wit’s end for a cure.

    In Sleep Over, these stories are just the beginning. Before the Longest Day, the world record was eleven days without sleep. It turns out most of us can go much longer.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJan 16, 2018
    ISBN9781543655186
    Author

    H. G. Bells

    H. G. Bells grew up in Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast in British Columbia, Canada. She loves the West Coast, and currently lives in Vancouver. Sleep Over is her first novel.

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    • 5/5
      Excellent book. The stories were varied and interesting but mainly it was just such a unique and thought provoking idea. How would you handle it?

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      There are so many terrible apocalypse books out there however this one is quite good. It’s darks and moving in parts. It doesn’t stick the landing which is a shame otherwise it would have been 5 stars.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      This was not a scary read, as I was hoping for, but it still kept my rapt attention the whole way through.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      I was very impressive with this twist on the end. Great job.
    • 5/5
      I was captivated from start to finish . There is nothing more that I can say.
    • 4/5
      Not as insightful when it came to reflecting on aspects of society, but nonetheless a great apocalyptic horror.
    • 1/5
      I think I need someone to explain this one to be like I'm five. Its not poor writing, it's disjointed and.… I would say fractured but that would indicate two pieces that kind of go together.