The Dream Master
by:
Roger Zelazny (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780413568502 (0413568504)
Publish date: 1985
Publisher: Methuen
Pages no: 169
Edition language: English
A very strange book. Therapy done with a type of virtual reality, but the therapist is actually in the patients head controlling what the patient sees. If a feedback loop occurs, the therapist ends up needing therapy. Or ends up in the nut house.
I feel I should give this rating a disclaimer. If this book were not a re-read, if I had come into it completely new, it would have been a 3 to 3.5 for me. But the memories I have of this book are so pervasive and so revolutionary back when I read it that I can't give anything that formative less th...
An interesting premise with a weak execution in a needlessly fragmented narrative. It wasn't a long novel but I felt that it would have either worked better as a short story or fleshed out in more depth as a longer novel.Surprisingly, this book one a nebula award (or so the blurb on the cover claims...
Charles Render is a Shaper, a type of psychiatrist who adminsters therapy via sort of a psychic virtual reality. Enter Eileen Shallot, a woman blind from birth who wants to be a Shaper and wants Render to teach her to see.I actually don't have a lot to say about this one. While I liked it, it was ...
Did anyone else think of this classic 60s SF novel when they watched Inception? I certainly did.
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