Dream (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: S. Fowler Wright
- First Published: 1931
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—evolutionary fantasy
- Time of Work: The 1920’s and a million years in the past
- Setting: Unspecified but probably Europe
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Magic or magicians, Europe or Europeans, Dreams, 1920’s, Prehistoric humans, Evolution, Prehistoric times, Primates
- Locales: Europe
The Plot
Dream: Or, The Simian Maid was written as the first book of a trilogy that follows the adventures of Marguerite Leinster as she experiences a magician’s induced dreamworld. The magician causes a dream that will suspend Marguerite for two weeks in real time but will seem to her as if it lasts a year. Stephen Cranleigh, who is her fiancé, and his sister Elsie buy the same dream from the magician and follow her to a primitive land a million years in the past. Marguerite is incarnated as a chimpanzee-like creature named Rita who becomes the self-appointed...
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