Don't Panic! You're Just Awake

Theo is fifteen, and since he was eight he has kept a list of everything that doesn't add up. There are four hundred and twelve observations in nine notebooks, and one homemade laptop called Panic that has never been online and has read every word.Then, on a wet Friday in October, a violent electrical surge blacks out the village and wakes something impossible inside Panic. Messages appear that Panic didn't write. They know about the girl Theo saw in the rain. They know his best friend Scooter is on his way. And they tell Theo to follow the map.With Maya, who never lets him get away with anything, and Scooter, who has never been on time for anything, Theo is drawn into a hidden world buried beneath the old village church. What begins as curiosity soon becomes a dangerous journey through forgotten chambers, hidden technology and distorted history. Unseen forces watch their every move, and the clues point towards ancient knowledge that was never meant to be rediscovered.Blending mystery, adventure, humour and speculative fiction, Don't Panic! You're Just Awake is a fast, funny story about consciousness, control, truth and the fragile boundary between accepted reality and the unknown. Panic's Field Notes run all the way through. Read them as jokes, read them as clues, or question them like everything else.Because sometimes the most dangerous thing isn't discovering the truth... it's realising how long it has been hidden.Now adapted by the author as a feature screenplay.