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The Waker Dreams - A Positronic Book
Hardcover
FantasyScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515421559
Publisher: Positronic Publishing
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 22
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A tense and psychologically charged novella by Richard Matheson exploring reality, identity, and the fragile boundary between dream and waking life.
In The Waker Dreams, Matheson probes one of his recurring themes: the instability of perception and the unsettling possibility that consciousness itself may be unreliable. What begins as a private disturbance gradually expands into existential uncertainty, as the familiar world shifts and fractures under pressure. The story unfolds with quiet inevitability, building tension through suggestion rather than spectacle.
Matheson's strength lies in his ability to fuse speculative premise with intimate human fear. Rather than relying on elaborate technology or distant futures, he situates the extraordinary within the ordinary, allowing psychological unease to drive the narrative. The Waker Dreams exemplifies mid-century science fiction at its most focused and personal-compact, unsettling, and intellectually provocative.
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