Charlie Huston's Sleepless

I've been an insomniac since I was born; one of the stories my mother tells is how I stayed awake for almost three days after she brought me home from the hospital. So perhaps I'm sympathetic to the idea of the end of civilization caused by sleeplessness.

That's the scenario envisioned by Charlie Huston in his new novel Sleepless. A new prion has emerged that's killing 10 percent of the population, but not quickly. First, they lose the ability to sleep, and the rest of the world unravels...