"Rotenberg tells the tale in short, action-packed chapters that go down like chilled vodka shots." --Toronto Life--Must Reads review for Murder of Crows
"This novel heats up and never stops." --Globe and Mail review for Placebo Effect
THE DREAM CHRONICLES envisions a potential future for humankind as security keeps trumping individual freedom. It is a warning and a celebration of the human spirit. It is adventure on the high seas of space: pirates and slavers and huge governments are in hot pursuit of the Dreamers; The ENTREPREN TRADERS (who control all interplanetary commerce and the life-extension drug Kiltrin) watch carefully, aware that stability is the greatest asset their business has and these Dreamers are a new chaotic reality in the galaxy; and then there is the ever powerful S3 with its head offices in New Omaha Beach on planet Earth--scheming, spinning the webs of its ancient spy master CYRUS MALONEY III.
With each new encounter the intrepid dreamers learn more about their abilities and seek out more of their kind. But the galaxy is a dangerous place. Everyone they meet could be a member of S3, could turn them in for the huge rewards offered for them by the REBEL COLONIES or the UNITED DOMINION OF PLANETS. Even the pirates from whom they took the starship are in hot pursuit.
But before the young adventurers is the possibility of glory. Of completion. Of dreams. Of human kind's shared destiny.
David Rotenberg has been a master acting teacher for over 25 years. He has directed on Broadway, in major regional theatres, for television, and he has published eleven novels. The five Zhong Fong novels are under consideration by HBO; his best selling historical fiction novel, SHANGHAI, has been optioned by Darius Films; his trilogy, THE JUNCTION CHRONICLES, has been optioned by Don Kurt who produced the Emmy award winning series Justified. David has taught at York University, the National Theatre School of Canada, the Shanghai Theatre Academy, the University of Cape Town, and Princeton. He is the Artistic Director of the internationally renowned Professional Actors Lab in Toronto where students from as far afield as Turkey, South Africa, the USA, Hong Kong and the UK come to study acting. He also teaches in Los Angeles. He directed the first Canadian play in the People's Republic of China. Recently he directed at Penn State and opened a new professional theater in Toronto with his adaptation and direction of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby.
