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Title: Dream Dancer by Janet E. Morris ISBN: 0-399-12591-4 Publisher: Smithmark Pub Pub. Date: 01 August, 1983 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $1.98

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Average Customer Rating: 4.25 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A series you can read again and again
Comment: The dream Dancer series (Dream Dancer, Cruiser Dreams & Earth Dreams) follows the fortunes of Shebat who is lifted from a life of grinding poverty on decaying earth into the seething morass of intra family power politics, civil unrest and light speed technology that is the "Consortium" run by the charismatic and manipulative Kerrion clan.

Combining a unique vision of a future lived in space with well drawn portraits Janet Morris has created a tale in which you become desparately involved in the twisting fortunes and shifting allegiances of a number of intriguing characters.

I bought Dream Dancer in the 80's on a business trip to the States to read on a flight home to Sydney. I enjoyed it so much and got so involved that (as I knew they were not available in Australia) I rang a colleague in San Francisco from the airport, as soon as I landed, and had him purchase the other two books in the series and express courier them to me the same day - I couldn't wait to find out what happened in the sequels. I wasn't disappointed.

Rating: 4
Summary: Intricate, dense and a very different future
Comment: I read this book a long time ago, too; recently thinking about internet access, I remembered that this book was one that prophesized in-head database access, so I dug it up via Amazon. Very cool (OK, the cover art did its job!) This is not an s-f skimmer - you have to really slow down and dig into the dense, poetic prose. The author focuses on encounters and critical junctures, and zips by developments she's not really interested in, leaving you pondering the details for yourself. (I'd like to read the 'director's cut'.) Some interesting topics, set in year 2251: sponge space (think: wormholes), old Earth magic (spells); 'internet' access inside your head, if you rate a connection; space cruisers, again with a mental interface, who develop sentience; dream dancers (leave it to your imagination here); power politics (that never changes, does it?); precocious and sexy 17-year-olds dumped into the middle of all this. That's just some of Morris' "vision of the future", as she says in the intro.

The series is an intricate work of art. I'd bet that's why it's not known much now: this is not an easy read, almost filigree in its use of language - but it's worth the effort.

Rating: 4
Summary: A forgotten treasure
Comment: I was cleaning out the garage and came upon this, which I bought when it was new. This is a rich and complex trilogy about an Earth girl who is swept up into the politics of a vastly powerful space-faring family. The author appears to understand hard science better than most SF authors, and she uses it judiciously. It is a shame this is out of print; it clearly deserves more recognition than it ever got.