The Dream Master (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Roger Zelazny
- First Published: 1965
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: Early in the twenty-first century
- Setting: An unidentified city in the northeastern United States
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Twenty-first century, Dreams, Mental illness, Accidents
- Locales: United States
The Plot
The Dream Master was created when Roger Zelazny added approximately ten thousand words to the novella “He Who Shapes,” serialized in the January and February, 1965, issues of Amazing Stories. In the novel, Charles Render, a neuroparticipation therapist, enters the dreams of neurotic patients and treats them. He is preeminent in his field but detached emotionally because of the death of his wife, Ruth, and daughter, Miranda, nine years earlier in an automobile accident. He has a ten-year-old son, Peter, at boarding school and a twenty- nine-year-old...
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