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The Dream Master

By: Roger Zelazny
Narrated by: George Newbern
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His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind-and the terrors that lurk therein.

©2001 Roger Zelazny (P)2022 Tantor Science Fiction
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Roger Zelazny’s The Dream Master is set in a future where although physical needs are met, psycho-logical needs suffer. A novel therapy for counseling is offered with a therapist who is able to create and control a person’s dreams as a method to work through their issues. Charles Render is a leader in this field and elects to take on a unique subject, a young woman who while congenitally blind, wishes to specialize in this type of therapy. She enlists Render to experience the visual aspects of dreams through Render. The force of her will results in Render losing himself in her elaborate dreams.

Zelazny posits a novel psychological intervention where the therapist inserts himself into the patient’s head with some measure of control over the experience in order to force resolution of the patient’s underlying medical problem.

The narration is adequate with decent character distinction. Pacing is brisk for this short tale.

The stuff of dreams

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I was told this was a book I'd need to consume twice to fully enjoy. I didn't believe that reccomendation and now I'm sitting here knowing I'll have to make the journey again. Wish me luck.

What the F*#&!?

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This was a great psychological thriller with some interesting ideas and characters. I'll need to listen again to try and work out what exactly happened there at the end. I would like picking the authors brain on the ending.

Trippy mind F@#k

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Interesting ideas and characters. I think there was more room to flush everything out, however. Seems like this is a clear inspiration for the movie inception, or at least an inspiration for whatever inspired the movie.

Interesting ideas and characters

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Boring! Roger Zelazny wrote great books - this is not one of them.
Oh my gosh.. B-O-R-I-N-G-!-!-!

Narrator is excellent however! Pitch perfect voice characterizations.. just wonderful!

Boring! RZ wrote great books - this is not one.

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kept waiting for some twist or something, anything. but nothing ever happened. Skip this book

tedious

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I love sci-fi but this was painful to listen to. The narrator was obnoxious and the story was terrible.

Very disappointing

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This book was Trash. I hated it. Everyone told me this book was great. Nah.

Trash.

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