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    Dreamer: A Novel of the Silent Empire

    By Steven Harper

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    It is through first contact with an alien species that humanity learns of the Dream. It is a plane of mental existence where people are able to communicate by their thoughts alone--over distances of thousands of light-years. To ensure that future generations will have this ability, human genetic engineering produces newborns capable of finding and navigating the Dream.

    They become known as the Silent.

    Rust is just one planet among many in the Empire of Human Unity. It's nothing special, nothing unusual...except for the fact that it is home to an unknown boy who may be the most powerful Silent telepath ever born--a Silent with the ability to possess the bodies of others against their will. This mysterious child may be causing tremors within the Dream itself.

    For now, only the Children of Irfan know about him. A monastic-like order of the Silent, the Children protect their members even as they barter their services with the governments and corporations that control known space. But power like that cannot be hidden, and soon every Silent in the universe will know about the boy--and every government will be willing to go to war to control him.

    And if the Children of Irfan cannot find him first, the Dream itself may be shattered...

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    PublisherBook View Cafe
    Release dateDec 29, 2009
    ISBN9781611386721
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    Dreamer: A Novel of the Silent Empire
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    Steven Harper

    Steven Harper Piziks was born with a last name no one can reliably spell or pronounce, so he usually writes under the name Steven Harper. He grew up on a farm in Michigan but has also lived in Wisconsin and Germany and spent extensive time in Ukraine.So far, he’s written more than two dozen novels and over fifty short stories and essays. In 2022, his short story "Eight Mile and the City" in When Worlds Collide by Zombies Need Brains was nominated for the Washington Science Fiction Association Small Press Award for Short Fiction. When not writing, he plays the folk harp, lifts weights, and spends more time on-line than is probably good for him. He teaches high school English in southeast Michigan, where he lives with his husband. His students think he’s hysterical, which isn’t the same as thinking he’s funny.

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    • 4/5
      Humanity met aliens and discovered the Dream. The dream is a plane of existence where people can communicate psionically. Genetic engineering breeds humans who can do this. These humans are known as the Silent. Rust is nothing amazing in the Empire of Human Unity, except for the fact that there might be a child here who is causing tremors in the Dream. A monastic-like order of the Silent are looking for him to train and control him, as do many other world government.It's interesting but it's quite weak in parts, I lost interest several times. I won't be hunting for the next in the series as it's not really my thing but the author does show promise.
    • 4/5
      The Silent have the ability to communicate through the Dream, a plane where one exists in a purely mental state of awareness, and can communicate over vast immeasurable distances in an instant. Such ones are greatly valued, but when it becomes apparent that there is boy with even greater abilities such that he can posses even the non silent at his will, the search is on to find, and if necessary destroy this boy.The Children of Irfan, a benevolent monastic like order of the Silent, are amongst the first to become aware of this boy and Kendi, one the Children, is quick to search him out, but his fate, and that of the Dream itself, are not necessarily secure.Dreamer is the first book written in The Silent Empire series, and as we meet Kendi we learn that his lover Ben, the son of Kendi’s one time teacher at the Chldren of Ifran, has ended their relationship much to Kendi’s disappointment. While dealing with the problem of finding and protecting this boy he also hopes that he can re-establish his relationship with Ben.The writer has created an interesting future Universe, with well drawn characters one quickly comes to care about. The later written prequel, Nightmare, while not necessary reading for an understanding of Dreamer, does add much to the characters, especially Kendi, Ben and his mother. In truth having read Nightmare first, I find it hard to imagine approaching the series any other way. The stories make for pleasurable and at times suspenseful reading; I am already part way through the next book in the series, Trickster
    • 4/5
      In a universe linked by the instantaneous communications of the Silent, who can even possess the bodies of other Silent in order to deliver messages, a new kind of Silent arises: a boy who can possess the non-Silent, threatening to trigger a new wave of violence against the Silent, who are already often enslaved. Against the background of contending empires, a few Children of Irfan (a group of Silent who serve a particular empire) try to save the boy—or at least use him for their own purposes. Pros: complicated worldbuilding where everybody’s got a point of view; sexual, racial, and ideological diversity. Cons: slavery is a big part of the worldbuilding, not being fought by anybody in the novel, and while that was plausible under their circumstances and it was not “yay slavery” in any way, I found it really depressing to read.