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Karen Healey
Sleeps With Monsters
Sleeps With Monsters: Fighting For Better Futures
Five Books About…
Five Books Starring Asexual Protagonists
Five Books About…
Five Books With Asexual Protagonists
When We Wake and While We Run Sweepstakes!
Cryogenic Colonialism: Karen Healey’s While We Run
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe
The Pop Quiz at the End of the Universe: Karen Healey
Sleeps With Monsters
Sleeps With Monsters: Karen Healey Answers Seven Questions
When We Wake Sweepstakes!
The Girl Who Died: Karen Healey’s When We Wake
When We Wake (Excerpt)
Science Fiction, Young Adult || Sixteen-year-old Tegan is just like every other girl living in 2027—she's happiest when playing the guitar, she's falling in love for the first time, and she's joining her friends to protest the wrongs of the world: environmental collapse, social discrimination, and political injustice.
But on what should have been the best day of Tegan's life, she dies—and wakes up a hundred years in the future, locked in a government facility with no idea what happened.
Tegan is the first government guinea pig to be cryonically frozen and successfully revived, which makes her an instant celebrity—even though all she wants to do is try to rebuild some semblance of a normal life. But the future isn't all she hoped it would be, and when appalling secrets come to light, Tegan must make a choice: Does she keep her head down and survive, or fight for a better future?