Sleepers

Dr. Janeen Corbett's day begins like any typical Thursday morning, with traffic reports and the news until 7:01 a.m., when people across the world begin to collapse. Boston is ground zero for "the occurrence," perhaps related to an X3 solar flare forty-eight hours before, the strongest in recorded history. Satellite and communications are knocked out and thirty-four million people in the United States – 11 percent of the population – have fallen, leaving them in a dream-like coma unlike any...