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The Dreaming Kind: Short Stories and Fantasies
A Fantasy Novel by C. S. Friedman
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Short Story Collection,
- Dark Fantasy,
- Science Fantasy,
- First Contact,
- Time Travel
This book is for you if you're into...
- Sci-fi stories with surreal body and mind invasions
- Short fiction mixing dark humor, lyricism, and unsettling futures
- Collections that blend alien encounters with deeply personal stakes
Acclaimed Science Fiction and Fantasy author C. S. Friedman invites you to journey into the deliciously disturbing worlds of her imagination.
A bank clerk struggles to deal with malware inside his head…
A woman is required by law to let her dying mother take over her body…
A writer meets the man of her dreams (or perhaps her nightmares)…
A time traveler seeks scalped tickets to the Sermon on the Mount…
A telepath must abandon her humanity to negotiate with alien predators…
A visiting extraterrestrial chooses a down-and-out junkie for its first human contact…
From humorous to dark, witty to lyrical, this collection of eight short stories (plus a few extra treats) showcases the versatile talent of one of the genre's most creative writers.
Included:
Perfect Day
Downtime
Terms of Engagement
Pandora
The Dreaming Kind
Soul Mate
Bad Trip
Eye of the Needle
Plus three dark fantasy poems, and several excerpts from longer works.
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