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The Dream Master (1966)

by Roger ZELAZNY

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His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind-and the terrors that lurk therein.… (more)
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    The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin (paradoxosalpha)
    paradoxosalpha: Science fiction about the technological control of sleeping dreams. They're just dreams, right? What could go wrong?
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I don’t know why this one is largely under the radar. Imaginative, nicely written, vision of the future which isn’t so wrong -love the dog.

But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it?

rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
I don’t know why this one is largely under the radar. Imaginative, nicely written, vision of the future which isn’t so wrong -love the dog.

But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it?

rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
I don’t know why this one is largely under the radar. Imaginative, nicely written, vision of the future which isn’t so wrong -love the dog.

But is there anybody who has read this and understands the ongoing part of the man walking along the road who ends up killing himself? Is this Render? Is this how he escapes being trapped in another person’s dream? Is everything that happens in the book a dream except for this part of it?

rest here: https://alittleteaalittlechat.wordpress.com/2016/11/25/the-dream-master-by-roger... ( )
  bringbackbooks | Jun 16, 2020 |
I'm not a great fan of this book, where Psychiatry is done by Telepathy and by team.. There are a few interesting bits where oour hero is slipping into the mess before him. ( )
  DinadansFriend | Jul 20, 2017 |
It's probably sacrilege to say it, but the point of this SF classic was lost on me (and generally I *like* Zelazny). I found it confusing, structurally a bit of a mess, and a chore to get through. There's a sound central premise, but the explication and conclusion are mishandled, or perhaps I really didn't get it. Expanded into a novel from a shorter story, I'm willing to bet that the shorter form was better. ( )
1 vote PeterCrump | May 8, 2017 |
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ZELAZNY, RogerAuthorprimary authorall editionsconfirmed
Freas, KellyCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Freas, KellyCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Grant, MelvynCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
Powers, RichardCover artistsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
VELEZ, WalterIllustratorsecondary authorsome editionsconfirmed
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His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind-and the terrors that lurk therein.

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