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HTML:For fans of the oral history genre phenomenon World War Z, an inventive new spin on the apocalypse featuring a worldwide plague of insomnia. Remember what it's like to go an entire night without sleep? What if sleep didn't come the following night? Or the night after? What might happen if you, your friends, your family, your coworkers, and 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 a collection of waking nightmares, a scrapbook collection of 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 transforms social media into a blame game with deadly consequences. A freelance journalist grapples with the ethics of turning in footage of mass suicide. Scientists turn to horrifying experiments as they grow more desperate in their race 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 many of us will be forced to go much longer. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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This is sort of like a zombie apocalypse story without the zombies. In style it reminded me of "World War Z", the book, not the terrible movie. Again without zombies. Who needs zombies when everyone has been awake for weeks.
The oral history of The Longest Day, a time (of undetermined length) when nobody on earth could fall asleep. Stories of mostly ordinary people from around the world and how they coped. If you can accept the premise, then you have to accept that perhaps something like this could occur without warning and that in the aftermath, we might never know what it was.
The first stories pretty much telegraphs ultimate survival of the human race, but that's OK. The book is called an "oral history". That means somebody must have been around to tell the stories to somebody who was collecting them
Most of the stories were very personal which is where the sense of dread comes in. Could I imagine myself in this situation? Many of the stories gave me that sense of dread I'd feel if it was really happening.
Although I enjoyed the book very much I didn't give it a 5 because the story telling was a bit uneven. For example, I didn't buy the story of the gamers, or the friends who just happened to decide to stay awake as an adventure the very night the Insomnia Plague struck. ( )