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* AsleepForDays: [[spoiler: Rebecca ends up asleep for a whole year.]]

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* AsleepForDays: [[spoiler: Rebecca Rebecca]] ends up asleep for a whole year.]]



* [[spoiler: DreamingOfThingsToCome: The dreams that people have while sick seem to be from the future, but nobody knows if they actually are.]]

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* [[spoiler: DreamingOfThingsToCome: The dreams that people have while sick seem to be from the future, but nobody knows if they actually are.]]

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* ThePlague: The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by the sleep disease.
* VirusMisnomer: Averted. The disease actually is a virus.

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* ThePlague: The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by the sleep disease.
* VirusMisnomer: Averted. The disease actually is a virus.
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The Dreamers is a 2019 science fiction book created by Karen Thompson Walker. In it, the small Californian town of Santa Lora is ambushed by a mysterious disease that causes people to fall asleep. The book follows a variety of narrators as the story progresses: Mei, a student at the local college at the source of the outbreak; Sara, a girl who lives with her sister and survivalist father; Catherine, a psychologist who comes to study the disease; Ben, a new father who has recently moved to the area; and Nathaniel, a biology teacher who watches over his gay lover.

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The Dreamers ''The Dreamers'' is a 2019 science fiction book created by Karen Thompson Walker. In it, the small Californian California town of Santa Lora is ambushed by a mysterious disease that causes people to fall asleep. The book follows a variety of narrators as the story progresses: Mei, a student at the local college at the source of the outbreak; Sara, a girl who lives with her sister and survivalist father; Catherine, a psychologist who comes to study the disease; Ben, a new father who has recently moved to the area; and Nathaniel, a biology teacher who watches over his gay lover.
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No relation to Creator/BernardoBertolucci's [[Film/TheDreamers 2003 film of the same name]].

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* ThePlague: The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by the sleep disease
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The story takes place before the disease spreads to the major population centers of California. [[spoiler:Averted. The disease runs out of people to infect before it manages to spread any further.]]

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* ThePlague: AsleepForDays: [[spoiler: Rebecca ends up asleep for a whole year.]]
* ContaminationSituation:
The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by main characters are almost always exposed to the sleep disease
disease, and side characters fall like flies in this novel.
* DeepSleep: What the disease causes in people. [[spoiler: Turns into BigSleep very quickly if the person doesn't get medical attention]]
* [[spoiler: DreamingOfThingsToCome: The dreams that people have while sick seem to be from the future, but nobody knows if they actually are.]]
** [[spoiler: Rebecca dreams about raising a child before she even sees her child in real life.]]
** [[spoiler: One person dreams that a fire will happen, and it does, but several details are inconsistent]]
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The story takes place before the disease spreads to the major population centers of California. [[spoiler:Averted. The disease runs out of people to infect before it manages to spread any further.]]]]
* ThePlague: The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by the sleep disease.
* VirusMisnomer: Averted. The disease actually is a virus.
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The Dreamers is a 2019 science fiction book created by Karen Thompson Walker. In it, the small Californian town of Santa Lora is ambushed by a mysterious disease that causes people to fall asleep. The book follows a variety of narrators as the story progresses: Mei, a student at the local college at the source of the outbreak; Sara, a girl who lives with her sister and survivalist father; Catherine, a psychologist who comes to study the disease; Ben, a new father who has recently moved to the area; and Nathaniel, a biology teacher who watches over his gay lover.

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* ThePlague: The town of Santa Clara is slowly destroyed by the sleep disease
* JustBeforeTheEnd: The story takes place before the disease spreads to the major population centers of California. [[spoiler:Averted. The disease runs out of people to infect before it manages to spread any further.]]

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