Welcome to Your Dreamtime

This experimental novel by one of the science fiction genre's most important authors is a cinematic montage of dreamlike episodes extrapolated from our own hypermediatized reality into a near-future dystopia that is as foreboding and dangerous as it is liberating and adventurous. A masterful satirist and provocateur, Norman Spinrad is well-known for taking risks, challenging normative conventions, and pushing the limits of narrative in books like Bug Jack Baron and The Iron Dream. In Welcome to Your Dreamtime, he returns to his avant-garde roots as a practitioner of New Wave SF in the twentieth century, but here his purview is fixed on the twenty-first century as he depicts how contemporary reality has been transformed into an aggressive irreality of Desire Unbound by the forces of digital culture. Dark, playful, humorous, subversive, and intelligent, this unique novel re-establishes Spinrad as the "hip, worldly, high-tech Nostradamus” that Timothy Leary said he was.

NORMAN SPINRAD is a writer, essayist, and critic. The winner of a Hugo Award and two Nebula Awards, he twice served as the president of the Science Fiction Writers of America, and he is the author of over twenty novels. Spinrad lives in France.

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"Norman Spinrad has never quit redefining his role as dissident and sage, inviting the bullies of the present moment outside for a throwdown, and somehow also conjuring possible futures despite all the odds against those—he’s that most miraculous of creatures, a Utopianist’s Dystopianist." —JONATHAN LETHEM

"Endowed with an acuity as terrifying as it is pertinent, Norman Spinrad is without a doubt one of the best contemporary American novelists." —ROLLING STONE

"With a rich and passionate imagination, at once subtle and humane, Norman Spinrad is a very fine writer indeed, working at the peak of his gifts." —GREG BEAR

"Like his characters, Spinrad takes great risks; the rewards for readers willing to meet him halfway are commensurate." —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

"A hip, worldly, high-tech Nostradamus whose engaging predictions are occurring on CNN as you turn his pages." —TIMOTHY LEARY

"Norman Spinrad remains an irreplaceable voice in the SF field. Critic, provocateur, daring dreamer, he deserves a prominence even higher than what the field has already accorded him." —LOCUS MAGAZINE

"Spinrad leads the reader gently toward wider and more awesome vistas, expanding the mind as he goes." —LARRY NIVEN