Tunnel Out of Death ( 2013) focuses on a vividly described, Genetically Engineered private investigator as a dubious commission takes him through various Dimensions and/or Virtual Reality worlds. The Houses of Time ( 2008), which explores conundrums of Identity, is perhaps less strong than his earlier tales. Further novels explored adjacent and overlapping regions of fictional discourse, though without any one title establishing the kind of mastery over this disparate material that might contribute significantly to the flow of sf intuitions in the new century. The Higher Space ( 1996) feeds higher Mathematics and Physics into a similar mix, climaxing in an Equipoisal rendering of the admixture of Buddhism, chaos theory and shamanism into something here called Thaumatomathematics. Quasar ( 1995) is set in a Ruined Earth environment caused by Climate Change and War, in a Keep-like City where the protagonist must shuttle between real world and Virtual Reality in a family-romance, discovering Monsters Underground en passant. Thotmoses he has more control over his dreams.

He discovers that under the tutelage of Dr. As usual in tales of this sort, Metaphysics tends to complicate the various quests undergone by protagonists whose worlds have become irreal at the hands (see Paranoia) of mysterious beings, and – typically of sf written to convey environments somehow distinguished from the First World that underlies most traditional sf venues – dream states as modes not only of perception but of Transportation as well are found in his work. David Grant has a singular talent-he can affect the course of his dreams.Quite by chance, he discovers the existence of the Trans-Humanist Institute and their lucid dreaming lessons. (1955- ) US author who began publishing work of genre interest with 'The Darkness Beyond' for Aboriginal Science Fiction (May-June 1988) his first novel, Quasar ( 1995), establishes a sometimes foggy relationship between lucid dream states and the external Perception (and manipulation) of reality. Cairo in 2015 and in 2023: The Dreadful Fates of the Egyptian Capital in Jamil Nasirs Tower of Dreams and Ahmed.

Tower of Dreams by Jamil Nasir