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.