The Masters of Sleep

by L. Ron Hubbard

An older Jan/Tiger and Alice/Wanna rediscover adventure and each other, Jan/Tiger finally merges into a single entity—master of day and night, of the parallel worlds of sleep and waking.

157 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1950

About the author

With 19 New York Times bestsellers and more than 350 million copies of his works in circulation, L. Ron Hubbard is among the most enduring and widely read authors of our time. As a leading light of American Pulp Fiction through the 1930s and '40s, he is further among the most influential authors of the modern age. Indeed, from Ray Bradbury to Stephen King, there is scarcely a master of imaginative tales who has not paid tribute to L. Ron Hubbard. Then too, of course, there is all L. Ron Hubbard represents as the Founder of Dianetics and Scientology and thus the only major religion born in the 20th century.

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Reviews

[Per · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Rebecca · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is the sequel to the excellent Slaves of Sleep. This book was published more than ten years after the first one, and you can really tell how the author’s style has changed. This book does some things better than the first one, but also does some things worse. Overall, the quality is equal, though.

Jan is older, and his character has changed a bit. He obtains a magical artifact that allows him to switch bodies with anyone. He gets into many adventures with that, and I like the juxtaposition of the fantasy magical item with post-WW2 society.

The author made a psychiatrist the villain, and the villain becomes a jinn in the Arabian Nights world. So now the reader has an explanation of where the jinn come from in this story, and why there seems to be less people in the Arabian Nights world than in our world. Tiger is now an anti-colonialist, and finally liberates humanity and sends all of the jinn to live in the desert. This ending is better than the one in the first book.