Awakened

Author: Elliott, Laura

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 10 June 2025 by Watkins Media Limited (Angry Robot) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 400 pages
196 x 130 x 35 | 376g

Science has stolen sleep and awakened a world of horror.

“I’ve been an insomniac all of my life, but I’m not Sleepless and I won’t become Sleepless, just as long as the chips that were put into their heads never get put into mine. There’s little chance of that, since I won’t put the machinery into my brain and neither will Edgar and neither will the Professor, and we’re the only three left who could. I don’t want to be Sleepless…”Civilisation has ended. In a bid to make us more productive, to give us more time, science took sleep from humanity. But sleeplessness turned people into feral monsters and now a small group of scientists are trapped in the Tower of London, consumed by guilt at what they have done and desperately searching for a cure. And then one day, as the last ravens circle, two miraculous survivors walk into the Tower. Are they the answer or a terrible question?File Under: A mother’s daughter | Sweet dreams | Kill or cure | Blue-eyed boy |