Stay Awake with an Excerpt from Adrian Barnes’ Nod
Out today from Titan Books is Nod by Adrian Barnes, and as promised when we kicked off our giveaway for the novel (just a few hours are left to enter), we have an excerpt from it to share.
Nod is Barnes’ first published work. CLICK HERE to download Chapter 1.
Synopsis:
Dawn breaks over Vancouver and no-one in the world has slept the night before, or almost no-one. A few people, perhaps one in ten thousand can still sleep, and they’ve all shared the same golden dream. A handful of children still sleep as well, but what they’re dreaming remains a mystery. After six days of absolute sleep deprivation, psychosis will set in. After four weeks, the body will die. In the interim, panic ensues and a bizarre new world arises in which those previously on the fringes of society take the lead. One couple experience a lifetime in a week as he continues to sleep, she begins to disintegrate before him, and the new world swallows the old one whole…
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