Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Sci Fi Sleeping Beauty: A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan



A Long, Long Sleep by Anna Sheehan also qualifies for today's science fiction fairy tales list. It's also dystopian which is why I perhaps forgot to add it on my earlier list today. This one draws inspiration from Sleeping Beauty.

Rosalinda Fitzroy has been asleep for sixty-two years when she is woken by a kiss. Locked away in the chemically induced slumber of a stasis tube in a forgotten subbasement, sixteen-year-old Rose slept straight through the Dark Times that killed millions and utterly changed the world she knew. Now, her parents and her first love are long gone, and Rose— hailed upon her awakening as the long-lost heir to an interplanetary empire— is thrust alone into a future in which she is viewed as either a freak or a threat. Desperate to put the past behind her and adapt to her new world, Rose finds herself drawn to the boy who kissed her awake, hoping that he can help her to start fresh. But when a deadly danger jeopardizes her fragile new existence, Rose must face the ghosts of her past with open eyes— or be left without any future at all.

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