Sleep Over

An Oral History of the Apocalypse

De: H. G. Bells

Narrado por: Justine Eyre, Saskia Maarleveld, Tim Campbell, Alana Kerr Collins, P. J. Ochlan, Adenrele Ojo

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.

Full cast of narrators includes Neil Shah, Susan Ericksen, Prentice Onayemi, Andrea Emmes, and Braden Wright.

©2017 H. G. Bells (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

Different, i love it!

This is different kind of storytelling, different perspectives really just elevate the entire story so much, I loved views of different people of different ethnicities going though an apocalypse, the whole gamer shebang was kinda cringe tho.

Holy Voice Actors!

I started this book just reading a physical copy like usual but wanted to check out the audiobook after falling into a bit of a reading slump. I finished the book within a couple days of getting this audiobook purely due to all the different voice actors! They really made it feel like various accounts of the apocalypse and kept it interesting. Rather than just knowing in your mind that these are all different people, the voice actors really drove home the fact that these are supposed to be people from all over the world telling their stories!

amazing!

so creative and well researched! i love this book so much, read it once and immediately listened to the audiobook.

Great start, goes off the rails hard.

Decent premise. Good buildup. Utterly fails to stick the landing. "Gamers rise up" is a genuinely baffling choice for an ending

Great premise, with unfortunate pacing and inadequate payoff

The idea of an insomnia apocalypse is an interesting one. However, the narrative didn’t do enough to set that premise apart sufficiently, and usually just veered right into standard apocalypse territory.
That would have been fine, had the payoff been better.
I don’t mind an open ending, but the story didn’t really go anywhere all that interesting as it pertained to the larger arc of the insomnia plague itself, and ended after a strange, and too lengthy, chapter, which was too small in scopes to justify its capping of the book.

I was reasonably happy with the book until sometime after the midway mark, where I started to realize it was t planning on going anywhere, because there was nowhere built up to go to.

That’s not to say I hated it, and I thought the first half was pretty good, it just ended up being a let down after bothering to pique my interest.