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COMA STORY is a moving fictional account of the Chagossians' quest to reclaim their native islands from the British. It is the story of coma and of the forgotten - nothing more.

This book is a fictionalized account of the Diego Garcia depopulation controversy written in the form of an open letter by a coma survivor. Aldan Foy, coma survivor, befriends deported Diego Garcia native, Tarzan, and with him plans to take over the Chagos Islands (a military zone leased by the U.S.) from the British. Sprinkled with Thompson’s wonderfully unique sense of humor, the story centers on Aldan's prolonged conscious dreaming during his coma and the subsequent inventive conspiracy to gain back the Chagos Islands. However, inspiration and surprise serve to brighten and enliven the novel. It is far from tragedy.

The narrator’s fascinating coma journey explores the link between conscious dreaming and creative problem solving. Stephen Thompson beautifully illustrates the phenomenon of lucid dreaming, as well as theories on the coma experience, and memory loss. Coma Story welcomes readers into a remarkable double-life, and guides them through a mind-opening voyage.

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Coma Story resembles a fresh David vs. Goliath.

In order to get back the Oil Islands, a de facto U.S. territory located roughly in the center of the Indian Ocean, the narrator, a coma survivor, must recall his lucid dreams. Living with a post-coma condition that no one could understand, Aldan Foy’s fascinating coma journey explores the link between conscious dreaming and creative problem solving. Based on the clever happenings of his dream episode, Aldan along with his multi-talented Chagos friend, Tarzan, conspires to gain back Chagos Archipelago from the Union Jack.

Aldan is a survivor of the Boxing Day Tsunami. On the fateful day at Mauritius, he was working on a documentary film about the Chagos Islanders’ plight. Falling into coma, the unforgiving tsunami transforms his entire life. He enters an altered state of consciousness and gets into the habit of lucid dreaming. The pursuit of fighting for the Chagos cause starts to preoccupy his coma life. Chagos Islanders are entitled British citizens, which create an opportunity for Tarzan to partake in a British reality TV show and become famous. With the new found star power and influence, Tarzan attracts attention for his displaced people, currently living in the slums of Mauritius and the Seashells, and they eventually manage to get Chagos Archipelago from the British without violence. However in this novel’s fictional universe, the U.S. President gets kidnapped, communal violence erupts in the Muslim world, intentional introduction of non-indigenous species corrupts an inhabited island and cyber-security threat creates a big chaos; all timely planned for the Chagos homeland cause.

After Aldan’s coma recovery, his accomplishment inside his conscious dreams seems meaningless, but he knows if he can remember how he freed the Chagos Island, he just might be able to replicate the creative solution in real life. As Aldan struggles to recapture the crucial moments of his dream, Tarzan falls ill. In any case, their goal to provide an optimistic future for the displaced islanders remains intact. Coma Story is not about the tragic cost incurred due to the superpower’s unjustifiable military strategies, but rather an attempt to uplift those victimized.

Coma Story is neither tragedy nor indictment but inspiration.