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  <title><![CDATA[The Dream Master]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;P&gt; His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals. &lt;P&gt; Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. &lt;P&gt; Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind -- and the terrors that lurk therein.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1966</original_publication_year>
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      <name><![CDATA[Roger Zelazny]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[Charles Render is a Shaper, a type of psychiatrist who adminsters therapy via sort of a psychic virtual reality.  Enter Eileen Shallot, a woman blind from birth who wants to be a Shaper and wants Render to teach her to see.<br/><br/>I actually don't have a lot to say about this one.  While I liked...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42574395">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 1979</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I encountered the novella in a Nebula Awards Collection while in college, then acquired the expanded version years later.  Both were impressive, the novella moreso.<br/><br/>The question of inner states, of private thoughts has long intrigued me.  As B.F. Skinner was apt to point out, the only asp...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/34794025">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Tue Apr 01 09:47:58 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a fairly decent dream-tech exploration story from Zelazny. It's the far future of... to '90s, where machines exist that let doctors enter a person's dreaming mind and interact -- and flying egg cars, but whatever. The main character is a psychologist in the top of his field, and he's approac...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19201479">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>SFBC 50th Anniversery Collection</em>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Psychoanalyst is one of the few who can do therapy by controlling the clients dreams. Another head doctor (female, beautiful, blind from birth) challenges him to analyze her though both run risks in such an untested situation. Thin plot and lack of incident are made up for by good characterization (...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/28987586">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I found this very immersive and of a perfect pace and length.<br/>But then I'm a sucker for stories like Tristan and Isolde.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Meh, didnt really appeal to me at the time. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[In a lot of ways very scary!<br/>]]></body>
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