From acclaimed author Sol Luckman comes SNOOZE, the riveting, coming-of-age tale of one extraordinary boy's awakening to the world-changing reality of his dreams, Winner of the 2015 National Indie Excellence Award for New Age Fiction. Join Max Diver, aka "Snooze," along the razor's edge of a quest to rescue his astronaut father from a fate stranger than death in the exotic, perilous Otherworld of sleep. An insightful look at a plethora of paranormal subjects, from Bigfoot and lucid dreaming to time travel via the Bermuda Triangle, SNOOZE also shines as a work of literature featuring iconic characters, intense drama and breathless pacing to stir you wide awake! Written with young adult and young-at-heart readers in mind, SNOOZE further proved its literary merit by being selected as a 2016 Readers' Favorite Finalist in the Young Adult-Coming of Age category and receiving an Honorable Mention in the 2014 Beach Book Festival Prize competition in the General Fiction category. "SNOOZE is a book for readers ready to awaken from our mass cultural illusion before we self-destruct." --Merry Hall, Co-Host of ENVISION THIS SNOOZE is "a moving story ... a multi-dimensional, many-faceted gem of a read. From mysteries to metaphysics, entering the dream world, Bigfoot, high magic and daring feats of courage, this book has it all ... I highly recommend [SNOOZE] for all ages. It's an exciting journey within." --Lance White, author of TALES OF A ZANY MYSTIC "Luckman's dazzling abilities as a novelist abound with lyrical prose ... Although [SNOOZE] chronicles a boy's transition into manhood, I would not consider it young adult. The provocative subject matter of science and spirituality is very mature ... If you enjoy colorful characters, a fast-paced plot and stories that tug at your heart, this novel in eighty-four chapters is anything but a yawn." --Suzanne Cowles for Readers' Favorite "Superlative fiction!" --INDIE SHAMAN Magazine "SNOOZE is without doubt one of the best coming of age,awakening books that I have ever read, and it had me entranced from the beginning to the end." --Ingrid Hall, Author & Freelance Editor "This was the first novel I had ever read by Sol Luckman but I will certainly be reading more of his work now. I would recommend this to all readers as the story truly holds a lot. It was deep, it was humorous and it left nothing to be desired." --OnlineBookClub.org "SNOOZE is a captivating coming-of-age tale about a gifted boy traveling to a fantastical realm to save his father ... Thanks to author Sol Luckman's writing ability, SNOOZE can be enjoyed by readers of all ages, despite being aimed at young adults. Right off the bat, the writing is engaging and captures the attention." --Indiereader.com SNOOZE is "a magnificent act of power, a novel brought forth for the Second Renaissance, the Return of Wisdom ... [G]et ready for the ride of a lifetime. You won't want to stop." --OracleReport.com My earliest dreams were lucid ones of flying. I have a particularly vivid memory of soaring above my father's tobacco fields where I used to hunt for arrowheads as a boy. There was a technique to flying in my dreams--akin to the way a condor rides thermal currents to corkscrew higher or lower. The feeling was one of exhilaration almost beyond description ... like walking into the light upon dying, or emerging into it at birth. I can still visualize the red clay of the tobacco fields falling away beneath me as I ascended--until they resembled not so much the fertile Cherokee relic hunting grounds of my leisure, but rather irregular red pepper flakes fallen at random on a green tablecloth. Perhaps it's not surprising I should return to the theme of lucid dreams of flying in my new novel, SNOOZE: A STORY OF AWAKENING. After all, such dreams persisted well beyond my childhood and occur even today. Not infrequently, my lovely partner, Leigh, ever patient with my foibles, is awoken in the dead of night by my odd habit of putting an arm above my head in sleep--as if I'm slicing through the air. Fortunately, overtime she has cultivated the ability to ignore this eccentricity. Fittingly, the idea for SNOOZE came to me one morning as I lay in bed attempting to shake off a dream of flying. My then nine-year-old son, deep in the throes of superhero addiction, sat beside me on wake-up-dad duty and casually remarked that I looked like a superhero myself in my blue, lavender-scented sleeping mask. (Lucid dreamer or no, I'm an infamously light sleeper, and find that darkness does wonders for my pineal's production of sleep-inducing melatonin.) "You think so?" I managed to ask, removing my mask, through a yawn. "Definitely," he replied with absolute confidence. "You could call yourself Snooze." This seemingly casual exchange mysteriously opened up the floodgates of my creative consciousness--and soon I had composed the first chapter of the novel that would come to be called SNOOZE. I had in mind to write something ind