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LUCIDDREAM™
Mid-this-century, Käthe Lurie will be a celebrated civil engineering wunderkind, credited with saving both Long Island and Nantucket from the sea. She will also be a gaming addict, hooked on the world’s most popular unregulated platform, LucidDream™.
On a three-day cross-country trip to meet her new investors, Käthe’s ‘habit’ will expose her most-prized avatar, Julian Maas, to a freedom-fighting femme fatale named Bel, who has somehow managed to outlive her own creator. A torrid affair ensues, fueled by deception and by the limitless possibilities of the ‘Dream. Set against the crumbling backdrop of Käthe’s journey through the once-United States, the contrast could not be more clear, or the conclusion more tempting. As California nears, Käthe will be forced to whether to keep salvaging the world she lives in, or roll the dice and pioneer the next.
Shades of Huxley, Pynchon, and Le Guin, LucidDream™ is a dark, comical, hallucinogenic meditation on the moment where we find ourselves right now–stepping through the looking glass into a hybrid realm of cyber- and bio-technologies that may well save us yet, or spell the end of life as we know it.
On a three-day cross-country trip to meet her new investors, Käthe’s ‘habit’ will expose her most-prized avatar, Julian Maas, to a freedom-fighting femme fatale named Bel, who has somehow managed to outlive her own creator. A torrid affair ensues, fueled by deception and by the limitless possibilities of the ‘Dream. Set against the crumbling backdrop of Käthe’s journey through the once-United States, the contrast could not be more clear, or the conclusion more tempting. As California nears, Käthe will be forced to whether to keep salvaging the world she lives in, or roll the dice and pioneer the next.
Shades of Huxley, Pynchon, and Le Guin, LucidDream™ is a dark, comical, hallucinogenic meditation on the moment where we find ourselves right now–stepping through the looking glass into a hybrid realm of cyber- and bio-technologies that may well save us yet, or spell the end of life as we know it.
368 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 17, 2026
About the author
Brooks Hansen
20 books122 followersBrooks Hansen is an American novelist, screenwriter, and illustrator best known for his 1995 book The Chess Garden. He has also written one young adult's novel. He lives with his family in Carpinteria, California. He attended Harvard University and was the recipient of the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005.
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