Waiting on Wednesday 06/15/16
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine that lets us feature upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
Sleep Over: An Oral History of the Apocalypse by H.G. Bleackley (January 3, 2017 by Talos)
I confess, I am a sucker for “oral histories” and other epistolary style novels, and so when I saw this one I was immediately intrigued. The release date is still a ways away so it’ll be a long time before I can sate my curiosity, but I can be patient…or not.
“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.”
The BiblioSanctum 
Oh this one is new to me!
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Looks very interesting. Hope you love it!
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Nice! That’s a new to me one as well! Hope you enjoy it!!
Here’s my WoW
Have a GREAT day!
Old Follower 🙂
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Just thinking about not sleeping is making me crazy, lol! Definitely a great concept for a story.
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Haha, as you know I don’t sleep much…maybe this is why the concept of it appealed to me 😛
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Okay, that’s a cool idea and a new take on the apocalypse. Could be interesting.
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I’m interested in the author’s take too…plus, it’s an epistolary novel, so I just can’t resist that…
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Fascinating! I’d never thought how our society would possible fall if no could sleep, but reading some of the story example from the book’s info… it’d be a horrific collapse.
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I think I read recently somewhere that a person would die sooner from having no sleep than having no food or water. Yep, book’s premise is horrific.
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As someone who just woke up for work with only 5 hours of sleep, not sleeping would literally be the worst thing ever.
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As far as end-of-the-world themes go, this is one I never heard before – truly intriguing, even if it strikes a bit too close to home, since I’m subject to a few sleepless nights now and then… 😀
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I thought the idea was pretty unique! Worth a look, I think.
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Could be good
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I’ve not heard of this one before but it sounds intriguing – the thought of no sleep though, it’s just making me stretch and yawn! Literally, I’m yawning.. not even joking! I couldn’t. Need at least 8 hours.
Lynn 😀
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Haha, reading about how you were yawning is making me yawn now too…damn contagious yawning.
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Nice! This one is new to me but it sounds great. I really like the idea of not being able to sleep for stories.
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