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Walking Like Morpheus
HYPNOS the largest purveyor of dreamtime entertainment in the world. With a standard subscription you receive a state of the art isolation tank, and access to Hypnos' theta a magical dream world that knows no bounds, where professional dreamers are waiting to help you become anything you want, and go anywhere you can imagine. And if you are really lucky, your dreams will be assigned to Aidan Morrish.
Aidan is the best dream guide Hypnos has to offer. Life for him is the life of a superstar. But being the best has a downside; jealousy is everywhere, and many want to ruin Aidan's reputation. So when his client inexplicably disappears mid-dream, Hypnos revokes Aidan's lucrative dream contract, and it seems his enemies have succeeded. Aidan knows he is being victimised, but when he sets out to prove his innocence, he discovers a secret that runs far deeper than the envy of his peers
Aidan is the best dream guide Hypnos has to offer. Life for him is the life of a superstar. But being the best has a downside; jealousy is everywhere, and many want to ruin Aidan's reputation. So when his client inexplicably disappears mid-dream, Hypnos revokes Aidan's lucrative dream contract, and it seems his enemies have succeeded. Aidan knows he is being victimised, but when he sets out to prove his innocence, he discovers a secret that runs far deeper than the envy of his peers
66 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2009
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Edward Cox
61 books104 followersAuthor of THE RELIC GUILD trilogy (The Relic Guild, The Cathedral of Known Things, The Watcher of Dead Time) published by Gollancz. Represented by Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Daddy, husband, reader.
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April 10, 2011
It took me a long time to get to this book, and I wish I had earlier. Thing is, this book came out in 2009, but people will immediately think the author used Inception as a basis. Well, they'd be wrong. The book pre-dates the movie. So, this is more of a "great minds think alike" deal.
Still, Walking Like Morpheus, is in most ways completely different from the movie. Both are about lucid dreaming, which is when the dreamer can control what's going on in his/her dream. Mr. Cox has taken that idea another step (which is where it coincides somewhat with the movie) of having the lucid dreamer able to control other people's dreams.
Aidan is a lucid dreamer, called an Oneiroi (in myth, the sons of Hypnos), hired by the Hypnos Corporation, which has discovered a way to use lucid dreamers to give clients what they want to dream, rather than being stuck with that random weirdness we all experience in dreaming.
During one session, something goes very wrong. Aidan loses control of the dream and is confronted with his own worst nightmare. He reports the problem to the company, realizing something is wrong with the apparatus that allows the Oneiroi to control the dream of another. Rather than looking into what is wrong, the Corporation immediately fires Aidan. After a bout of self-pity, he seeks to find out exactly what went wrong and why.
Any more and I'd be clicking the spoiler box, so I'll leave it at that.
Mr. Cox is an excellent writer and I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes science fiction and fantasy.
Still, Walking Like Morpheus, is in most ways completely different from the movie. Both are about lucid dreaming, which is when the dreamer can control what's going on in his/her dream. Mr. Cox has taken that idea another step (which is where it coincides somewhat with the movie) of having the lucid dreamer able to control other people's dreams.
Aidan is a lucid dreamer, called an Oneiroi (in myth, the sons of Hypnos), hired by the Hypnos Corporation, which has discovered a way to use lucid dreamers to give clients what they want to dream, rather than being stuck with that random weirdness we all experience in dreaming.
During one session, something goes very wrong. Aidan loses control of the dream and is confronted with his own worst nightmare. He reports the problem to the company, realizing something is wrong with the apparatus that allows the Oneiroi to control the dream of another. Rather than looking into what is wrong, the Corporation immediately fires Aidan. After a bout of self-pity, he seeks to find out exactly what went wrong and why.
Any more and I'd be clicking the spoiler box, so I'll leave it at that.
Mr. Cox is an excellent writer and I'd recommend this book to anyone who likes science fiction and fantasy.
July 30, 2014
An excellent dystopic tale of corporate greed run amok!
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