Terms of Sleep
Book One of The Waking TermsBy Jacob Peder Chistensen
Length3h 5m
About this audiobook
In a city where clean air and medicine are metered, Brandr Vale sells his dreams to keep his younger sister, Liv, breathing. The Nocturne Exchange transforms sleeping minds into entertainment for the wealthy towers, but Brandr’s dreams reveal truths no one was meant to see: hands beneath glass, drowned women, and buildings already beginning to fall.
As his visions spread from private salons to the streets below, Brandr discovers that Nocturne is not merely recording dreams. It is building something from the people it has emptied.
To save Liv, Brandr must enter the darkness beneath the system—and confront what remains awake inside it.
*Terms of Sleep* is a literary dystopian novella about memory, exploitation, devotion, and the parts of us that cannot be owned.
Audiobook details
GenreScience Fiction
Length3 hrs 5 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateAug 25, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Part One: Sleep With Purpose
17The Tower That Fell
2Part Two: The First Viewing
18Proof
3Part Three: A Fashionable Soul
19Fresher
4Part Four: The Leak
20Part Seven: Beneath the Floor
5The Woman in the Water
21The Ones Who Answer
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6The Fountain
22The Estate
7The Most Expensive Argument
23The One Who Stayed
8The Tower That Cracked
24The One She Left Out
9Part Five: A Saint Beneath
25Pearl
10The Spread
26Part Eight: The Last Collection
11Dream Them Something Grey
27Awake
12How Mysterious That It Survived
28Open Eyes
13This Year’s
29Part Nine: Conditions of Waking
14Beautiful, and on Fire
30The Girl at the Top of the Stairs
15Part Six: A Total Loss
31Terms of Sleep
16The Dancers
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