Full name: The Dreamers: A Novel

Author: Karen Thompson Walker Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Science fiction, Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780812994162 0812994167

In an isolated college town in the hills of Southern California, a freshman girl stumbles into her dorm room, falls asleep--and doesn't wake up. She sleeps through the morning, into the evening. Her roommate, Mei, cannot rouse her. Neither can the paramedics who carry her away, nor the perplexed doctors at the hospital. Then a second girl falls asleep, and then another, and panic takes hold of the college and spreads to the town. As the number of cases multiplies, classes are canceled, and stores begin to run out of supplies. A quarantine is established. The National Guard is summoned. Mei, an outsider in the cliquish hierarchy of dorm life, finds herself thrust together with an eccentric, idealistic classmate. Two visiting professors try to protect their newborn baby as the once-quiet streets descend into chaos. A father succumbs to the illness, leaving his daughters to fend for themselves. And at the hospital, a new life grows within a college girl, unbeknownst to her--even as she sleeps. A psychiatrist, summoned from Los Angeles, attempts to make sense of the illness as it spreads through the town. Those infected are displaying unusual levels of brain activity, more than has ever been recorded. They are dreaming heightened dreams--but of what? Similar books: The Ice People by Maggie Gee The Wanting Seed by Anthony Burgess Divided Kingdom by Rupert Thomson The Man Who Turned into Himself by David Ambrose Life in the West by Brian Aldiss 2030 by Albert Brooks Concrete Island by J. G. Ballard K-Pax III: The Worlds of Prot by Gene Brewer Act of God by Jill Ciment Regiment of Women by Thomas Berger On Such a Full Sea by Chang-Rae Lee If, Then by Kate Hope Day The Stone Gods by Jeanette Winterson The Olive Readers by Christine Aziz Almost Adam by Petru Popescu Seveneves by Neal Stephenson Constitution by Nick Webb The Age of Miracles by Karen Thompson Walker Liberation by Ryk Brown Born of the Ashes by Ryk Brown