“John Manley has hit the ball out of the park again in his latest novel, All the Humans Are Sleeping… Curl up and prepare to be both shocked and delighted at the same time.” —Seán ÓLaoire, PhD, author of Spirits in Spacesuits and Setting God Free
Click on the "SIGN ME UP!" button and you'll get...
✓ a free ticket to the virtual book launch (multi-cast reading!)
✓ "behind the scenes" stories, videos and Easter Eggs
Set in our fast-approaching future...
Dear Reader,
All the Humans Are Sleeping begins in the year 2041. Most of the world's population lives in megacities — making them easy targets when World War III breaks out. The half-billion survivors are rounded up by the mostly friendly robots and brought to emergency underground bunkers along the Arctic Circle.
While the humans wait for the surface of the Earth to become habitable again, the United Nations offers them an alternative to being buried alive: Metaverse implants. This new technology, surgically installed into their spines and brains, allows their minds to escape into a utopian virtual reality simulation, while their bodies remain in a dystopian nightmare — floating in vats of synthetic amniotic fluid.
But one man refuses to comply.
Instead of sleeping in the Metaverse, Peter Stevens and his 16-year-old daughter are assigned a Domesticbot and relocated to the Jeakkarravia Agricultural Experiment — a greenhouse farm in the mountains of Northern Norway — to grow giant cabbages under the Midnight Sun, battle suicidal thoughts, and somehow stay awake while all the humans are sleeping.
Sign up, and on Sunday, December 1, I’ll send you a preview copy containing the first 106 pages (in ebook and audiobook format) of All the Humans Are Sleeping along with the login for the book launch teleconference.
“I had serious goosebumps... All the Humans Are Sleeping masterfully blends sci-fi thrills with thought-provoking
insights into our future… I couldn’t put it down.” —L.L. Tremblay, author of Seven Roses and Light Over Dark
Your Free Ticket to the Virtual Book Launch
Starting at 3 p.m. EST (12 p.m. PST, 8 p.m. GMT), I’ll be releasing All the Humans Are Sleeping to the world (in paperback, audiobook, and ebook formats) in a 60–90 minute webinar where I and my (long-haired) guests will:
- Give dramatic, multi-cast readings from the prologue and Chapter 4.03.
- Discuss the book’s themes of freedom, consent, AI, and virtual reality.
- Share behind-the-scenes stories about the making of All the Humans Are Sleeping (it took two decades!).
- Divulge Easter Eggs hidden throughout the book's pages.
- Answer questions from the audience.
A Renegade Priest, a Radical Painter,
A Holistic Doctor and Two Monkey Reporters
Joining me to discuss the book and read the dialogue of characters will be...
Father Seán ÓLaoire of SpiritsinSpacesuits.com is an expulsed Catholic priest who holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology. He is most famous for his (quasi) novel Setting God Free. We’ll be discussing the psychological and spiritual dangers of transhumanism and virtual reality — as explored in All the Humans Are Sleeping.
Jordan Henderson of JordanHendersonFineArts.com is most famous for his “Sanity, Her Son and the Incredulous” painting that exposed the inhumanity of the face mask mandates. We’ll share with you how he created the cover for All the Humans Are Sleeping (including earlier sketches and renditions).
Anthony Anderson and Mad Doug are two camera-shy reporters who like to monkey around from the 100% safe and effective anti-woke tabloid, Get Woke Up! Anthony’s cool but I’m hoping he’ll leave his virtue-signalling buddy, Mad Doug, behind. Mad Doug will only complain about how All the Humans Are Sleeping is messing with the globalists’ plans to subjugate humanity into all-inclusive poverty.
Dr. Marissa Heisel is a self-professed bibliophile who has adored reading since she was a very young child. For over 25 years, she's delved into the tapestry of natural healing modalities, blending the wisdom of holistic chiropractic care with insights from her training in midwifery and child development. She's also a great voice actress and will be performing all three females roles in the live book reading.
“Once again, John C.A. Manley has created a masterpiece. The narrative transcends his story's plot, infusing insights and observations about some of the most fundamental issues that have faced mankind throughout history.” —Bob Metz, Just Right Media
The Making of the Audiobook Documentary
Plus Other Behind-the-Scenes Stories
In addition to the first 24 chapters and a ticket to the book launch, when you become a subscriber, you’ll also receive…
- A short making of the audiobook video, which includes me running 3.5 km across town to be confined to a small booth with no air holes for hours on end while struggling with multiple accents and languages.
- A booklet (in ebook and audiobook format) telling the story of how I spent two decades writing All the Humans Are Sleeping — starting with an idea sparked by the classic cyberpunk film, The Matrix.
- My daily, short and witty Blazing Pine Cone Posts email newsletter — where I talk about fiction, philosophy and creativity.
So that's the plan, and I hope to see you there. Just click that SIGN ME UP! button to get your free preview copy of All the Humans Are Sleeping, the login details for the book launch webinar and all the other bonuses.
Stay sane & read great books,
John C.A. Manley
Stratford, Ontario, Canada
PS Here is what others are saying (in case I haven't yet convinced you to sign up)...
“All the Humans Are Sleeping is beyond anything I have ever read or imagined. Sheer brilliance!
The amount of research needed is mind-numbing.” —Gary Magder, DDS, founder of Goldtent TA Paradise
“All the Humans Are Sleeping paints a skillful picture of a possible transhuman future, it offers hope that humanity will triumph over the technocracy.” —Grahame Booker, PhD, author of Coercion, Authority and Democracy
“Sometimes fiction is the best way to get the truth across. Shakespeare and Charles Dickens knew that and so does John C. A. Manley.” —Patrick Corbett, retired Hollywood director and former producer for W-5, Beachcombers and Dateline
P.S. And here's the synopsis from the back cover of All the Humans Are Sleeping:
World War III lasted only six days. Within the first few hours, my farm in Manitoba burned to the ground. The blast that destroyed our home came from the same mushroom cloud that killed my wife. I wish it had nuked me, too, but those heartless robots saved me.
They also rescued my daughter, so I can’t damn them. She was the only thing keeping me alive… until the Metaverse took her away.
Yes, I’ve tried to kill myself. I may do it again. But that purple Domesticbot with its pompous British accent keeps on interfering.
The robots won’t let us go to heaven and the humans have made Earth a living hell. As an alternative, the United Nations has offered our minds a virtual purgatory in the metaverse, while our bodies are preserved in synthetic amniotic fluid like overgrown babies. One billion survivors “live” in those pods — hard-wired to the internet — forced to dream a digital fantasy where flowers never wilt and wither.
Well, I refuse their faux flowers. So what if they burnt up all the real ones?
Still, how can I accept this post-apocalyptic world? Can I endure being cloistered on this desolate mountaintop on the northernmost tip of Norway with an unhinged robot that wears a suit and tie and aspires to be a poet?
My name is Peter Stevens, the last of the Luddites. But I don’t know if I can remain awake when… all the humans are sleeping.
