Dream Maker: A Novel - Hardcover

Harbinson, W. A.

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802712142 ISBN 13: 9780802712141

Publisher: Walker & Co, 1992

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From the author of the international best-selling Genesis comes his latest shocking novel - an environmental techno-thriller that no one can afford to ignore.
Everybody thinks they know what is destroying the ozone layer, until NASA scientist Tony Rydell hits upon the truth in a dramatic and near fatal flight over the Antarctic. But nobody will listen to him, in some cases because they don't want to hear what he has to say, in other cases because what he has to say is so traumatic that fortunes and careers will be dashed, and the listeners, with their global corporate investments, cannot afford to heed the warnings.
Only ex-astronaut Clare Holton, a government scientific liaison officer, is willing to give Rydell a chance. But her boyfriend, the ruthless Jack Douglas, has the President's ear and is determined that nothing will undermine the United States becoming the world economic power - even if it costs us the environment in the process.
So while the world's governments sit back and do nothing, Clare and Tony embark on a lonely, dangerous quest: to save the earth from the Dream Maker, a mysterious force now growing stronger in the ever-widening hole in the ozone layer. A force that feeds off people's minds and sends them into an alien dreamworld filled with ghosts and UFOs, monsters and resurrected loved ones - a world where the line between dreaming and reality is fast being eroded.
Like Harbinson's previous best-sellers, Dream Maker is a fascinating combination of horror story and science fiction - a prediction of the world to come if we don't deal with today's terrifying environmental problems.

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About the Author:

W A Harbinson is the bestselling author of GENESIS and REVELATION. He is also the author of a Number One bestselling biography of ELVIS PRESLEY and the more recent ICONIC VOICES, a 'fictionalized autobiography' based on the interconnected lives of Elvis Presley, Marlon Brando, Norman Mailer, John Lennon, and Andy Warhol.

From Publishers Weekly:

British journalist and screenwriter Harbinson seems to have learned his SF tricks from the worst 1950s B-movies-- Plan 9 from Outer Space , say, with bits of Earth Versus the Flying Saucers thrown in for good measure. The plot here concerns two NASA scientists, Tony Rydell and Clare Holton, who discover an invisible alien intelligence (referred to as a "virus") living inside a hole in the ozone layer. The virus does all the things that invisible alien intelligences are expected to do: takes over people's minds, affects the weather, causes pilots to crash their planes, etc. Harbinson ( Genesis ) describes all this in prose that would be considered too stilted for a government report. Neither a pointless subplot involving Tony and his estranged wife Suzy nor the inevitable romance between Tony and Clare generates any interest, because the characters are not so much cardboard cutouts as tissue-paper cutouts. They spend a great deal of time psychoanalyzing themselves and explaining to each other things they already know. By the end of the book, they have grown so whiny and wearisome that the reader starts rooting for the virus.
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