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Sleepwalker: The Journal of Grady Ledger
What if your dreams weren't just dreams—but another reality fighting to break through? Grady "Gray" Ledger is a sleepwalker haunted by vivid dreams of an untamed wilderness filled with massive reptilian beasts. But when he wakes one night with a jagged, taloned nail embedded in his abdomen, there is no question his nighttime wanderings are more than just an unconscious habit—they're a perilous journey into another world.
Brane Theory suggests that our reality is just one of many—a vast multiverse where dimensions are layered one upon the next. In his sleep, Gray slips through to Wild-Side, a lush utopia home to the enigmatic, ageless Seeley and their advanced, exotic technology. But paradise is under siege. A ruthless, nightmarish species known as the Elend has begun invading from another Brane, bringing chaos and death to a defenseless and peaceful world.
As Gray's two lives spiral into chaos, he must fight on both sides of the veil between worlds—by day evading the FBI and corporate adversaries, by night waging war against the Elend. With the aid of Esker, a sarcastic Artificial Intelligence guiding him in the waking world, and a ragtag team of Wild-Side's greatest minds, Gray battles to protect his friends and his reality.
Kilmer Breslin, the ruthless CEO of Arlington Technologies Global, sees the parallel world as a prize to be exploited. As Gray and his allies sabotage ATG's shadowy experiments, an old flame, Piper Hudson, becomes embroiled in the conflict, forcing Gray to confront the cost of his double existence.
As the boundaries between worlds blur, deadly storms ravage Gray's home, and radioactive scars spread across Wild-Side. Can Gray hold the line between worlds before both shatter? Or will Wild-Side—and his own reality—fall to those who seek to control them?
A high-stakes battle across dimensions, Sleepwalker: The Journal of Grady Ledger is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that will leave readers questioning the nature of reality itself.
Brane Theory suggests that our reality is just one of many—a vast multiverse where dimensions are layered one upon the next. In his sleep, Gray slips through to Wild-Side, a lush utopia home to the enigmatic, ageless Seeley and their advanced, exotic technology. But paradise is under siege. A ruthless, nightmarish species known as the Elend has begun invading from another Brane, bringing chaos and death to a defenseless and peaceful world.
As Gray's two lives spiral into chaos, he must fight on both sides of the veil between worlds—by day evading the FBI and corporate adversaries, by night waging war against the Elend. With the aid of Esker, a sarcastic Artificial Intelligence guiding him in the waking world, and a ragtag team of Wild-Side's greatest minds, Gray battles to protect his friends and his reality.
Kilmer Breslin, the ruthless CEO of Arlington Technologies Global, sees the parallel world as a prize to be exploited. As Gray and his allies sabotage ATG's shadowy experiments, an old flame, Piper Hudson, becomes embroiled in the conflict, forcing Gray to confront the cost of his double existence.
As the boundaries between worlds blur, deadly storms ravage Gray's home, and radioactive scars spread across Wild-Side. Can Gray hold the line between worlds before both shatter? Or will Wild-Side—and his own reality—fall to those who seek to control them?
A high-stakes battle across dimensions, Sleepwalker: The Journal of Grady Ledger is a mind-bending sci-fi thriller that will leave readers questioning the nature of reality itself.
655 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2025
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About the author
Xander Weaver
10 books16 followersAfter a career spent in the realm of computer programming, much of Xander Weaver's early work focused on the development of custom online shopping systems. An accomplished web developer with more than fifteen years of experience, his childhood dream remained the same: to become an author and take readers on thrilling adventures. That dream was realized when he introduced the action/suspense character of Cyrus Cooper to the world. His love and passion for technology are often found at the heart of his books, because, as he professes, "I write the kind of stories that I love to read."
Xander now lives in Northern Illinois with his wife and overindulged turtle. Having come full circle, their home is just a few short miles away from where Xander grew up--the home where his imagination began to shine.
Xander now lives in Northern Illinois with his wife and overindulged turtle. Having come full circle, their home is just a few short miles away from where Xander grew up--the home where his imagination began to shine.
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December 1, 2025
The weight of this book would collapse under many authors, but not Weaver, he takes this on with finesse and skill. How does he do it? The story is supported with well crafted characters (but not too many as to have issues keeping them separate) and some interesting backstory chapters. Add some fresh dialogue and cool technologies and the adventure rolls on in a way that does not bog down.
February 25, 2025
Imagine Ted Dekker's Circle Series... Without The Christian Allegory. Now toss in perhaps a dose of Jeremy Robinson or Douglas Adams, and you pretty well know exactly what to expect with this particular book.
You've got the man who goes to sleep in one world... and wakes in another (Circle series). You've got pretty damn insane amounts of balls to the wall action with a lot of inventive scifi aspects all over the place (Robinson). You've got jokes ranging from so subtle you barely pick them up all the way up to slap the stick upside your head slapstick comedy. (Robinson and Adams). You've even got a version of one particular late 90s movie going on to an extent... but revealing *which* movie gets into spoiler territory I'll not go into. Suffice it to say that the parallels here are as obvious as the Dekker ones, and anyone who has seen this movie should easily recognize them.
And yet, Weaver still manages to craft a compelling tale uniquely his own, one full of both action and heart and one that will make you ponder things you may have pondered before, but in newer ways.
Yes, at 600+ pages this is a tome - but it is a fun one that tells a complete story and doesn't really feel repetitive or that any scene/ group of scenes could be left out and still tell the same story with the same depth, so I would thus argue that it is exactly the right length. Even if it *is* my longest read of the year so far, and even if Weaver *did* forget to warn me about its length before I picked it up. And even if the base apparently real science underpinning the entire book does sound like something out of Idiocracy. ;)
Seriously, this is easily one of the more inventive scifi books you're going to read this year, so if you like the scifi genre at all, you really need to pick up this book. If you like action at all, you need to pick up this book. Truly one of the early standouts of 2025.
Very much recommended.
You've got the man who goes to sleep in one world... and wakes in another (Circle series). You've got pretty damn insane amounts of balls to the wall action with a lot of inventive scifi aspects all over the place (Robinson). You've got jokes ranging from so subtle you barely pick them up all the way up to slap the stick upside your head slapstick comedy. (Robinson and Adams). You've even got a version of one particular late 90s movie going on to an extent... but revealing *which* movie gets into spoiler territory I'll not go into. Suffice it to say that the parallels here are as obvious as the Dekker ones, and anyone who has seen this movie should easily recognize them.
And yet, Weaver still manages to craft a compelling tale uniquely his own, one full of both action and heart and one that will make you ponder things you may have pondered before, but in newer ways.
Yes, at 600+ pages this is a tome - but it is a fun one that tells a complete story and doesn't really feel repetitive or that any scene/ group of scenes could be left out and still tell the same story with the same depth, so I would thus argue that it is exactly the right length. Even if it *is* my longest read of the year so far, and even if Weaver *did* forget to warn me about its length before I picked it up. And even if the base apparently real science underpinning the entire book does sound like something out of Idiocracy. ;)
Seriously, this is easily one of the more inventive scifi books you're going to read this year, so if you like the scifi genre at all, you really need to pick up this book. If you like action at all, you need to pick up this book. Truly one of the early standouts of 2025.
Very much recommended.
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