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    Nightmare: A Novel of the Silent Empire

    By Steven Harper

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    In the future, dreams keep the universe running. Dreamers, known as "Silent," are able to look into other people's dreams, communicate with other Silent across the galaxy, and speak to aliens. Silent construct dreams for themselves more vivid than reality.

    But some dreams have become nightmares...

    Kendi Weaver doesn't know he's Silent. Hijacked into slavery, he has resigned himself to a life of servitude. Then the discovery of his innate gift for dream communication changes everything. Suddenly Kendi is a very valuable commodity. He is rescued by the Children of Irfan--a society dedicated to freeing enslaved Silent--and taken to their planet, Bellerophon.

    But Bellerophon is hardly a safe refuge. A brutal serial killer is murdering Silent in their telepathic dreams, and Kendi is soon embroiled in a world of madness and murder. To catch the killer, he must enter the victims' dreams...

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBook View Cafe
    Release dateDec 29, 2009
    ISBN9781611386738
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    Nightmare: 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
      Set in the future, Kendi is a young Australian Aborigine, separated from his family and sold into slavery. Is future promises nothing, that is until he is discovered to be Silent; that os to have to ability to communicate across the Universe through dreams. He is them a valuable commodity and his immediately sold on. He comes into the hands of a group called the Children of Ifran, who inform him he is now a free person, but welcome to join them.Joining the Children of Ifran and studying with them to perfect his dream capabilities he becomes involved in the case of a serial killer who stalks his victims through their dreams. Working alongside his tutor he becomes mixed up in a gripping and tension packed drama as they close in on the killer. At the same time Kendi is trying to come to terms with his own personal problems. In addition to his lost family, he realises early on that he is attracted to men rather the women, but having nearly made a fool of himself twice before, when he recognises a special connection with his tutor’s son Ben, he is reluctant to act upon it. Will Kendi and Ben ever get it together, and if they do how will others react?Nightmare is very well written, and Steven Harper creates a fascinating future world which does not require the reader to grapple with complicated politics and technology. An involving very enjoyable story.
    • 5/5
      Nightmare is more of a prequel and I must say that I really enjoyed this book. It was excellent in all ways.The story takes us back to Kendi’s childhood. We see how he is split up from his family when he’s sold into slavery. We share the life that follows. It’s a hard life, a subservient life but Kendi is unwilling to forget his past. When the Children of Irfan rescue him some years later, he can hardly believe he’s free, let alone safe. But it turns out he’s not safe; no Silent is safe because there’s a serial killer on the loose.The hesitation I felt from the author in book one was non-existent in this book. It was so much more believable. The characters came alive on the page. The setting was three dimensional. The plot was sort of like a fantasy/science fiction mystery thriller, which I considered to be well thought out and written. There were some gory descriptions but nothing that wasn’t absolutely necessary for the storyline.The thing that stood out the most was the fact that I started reading and with no time at all, I was finished! For me, this is a sign that I’ve been totally absorbed by what I’m reading. The words flowed effortlessly, the storyline unfolded without any jarring occurrences and the resolution was more than just acceptable.Again, I really enjoyed this book and highly recommend it. I certainly will be purchasing the next book in the series.