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Richard Blade #11
Dimension of Dreams
Dream Time
In a new dimension of time and space Blade finds himself in a strange, crumbling city that seems to be the result of a very advanced technology. Violent gangs roam the streets. The area is brutalized by robbery, rape, and murder.
Blade takes refuge in the basement of a building, where he finds a number of steel doors in the wall. As he watches in amazement, a vault door slowly begins to open, and from within emerges a naked and startlingly beautiful woman. She eyes Blade warily as they begin to talk, then invites him into her vault--a luxurious one-room apartment with every imaginable creation of a technology advanced far beyond anything Blade has ever seen.
In the center of the room is an upright cylindrical glass chamber containing a gaseous substance that does not seem to escape, even though the door to the chamber is open. Then the woman reveals to Blade that, like most of the upper class of her society, she has been sleeping for a hundred years. They have discovered a way to possess the ultimate ideal--to love any life imaginable, to sustain it indefinitely by sleeping and living through their dreams...
In a new dimension of time and space Blade finds himself in a strange, crumbling city that seems to be the result of a very advanced technology. Violent gangs roam the streets. The area is brutalized by robbery, rape, and murder.
Blade takes refuge in the basement of a building, where he finds a number of steel doors in the wall. As he watches in amazement, a vault door slowly begins to open, and from within emerges a naked and startlingly beautiful woman. She eyes Blade warily as they begin to talk, then invites him into her vault--a luxurious one-room apartment with every imaginable creation of a technology advanced far beyond anything Blade has ever seen.
In the center of the room is an upright cylindrical glass chamber containing a gaseous substance that does not seem to escape, even though the door to the chamber is open. Then the woman reveals to Blade that, like most of the upper class of her society, she has been sleeping for a hundred years. They have discovered a way to possess the ultimate ideal--to love any life imaginable, to sustain it indefinitely by sleeping and living through their dreams...
181 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 1974
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About the author
Jeffrey Lord
255 books18 followersA house pseudonym used by multiple authors including:
Manning Lee Stokes
Roland Green
Lyle Kenyon Engel
Ray Faraday Nelson
Richard D. Nolane
Christian Mantey
Arnaud Dalrune
Yves Chéraqui
Gerald Moreau
Paul Couturiau
Amelina Defontaine
Didier Le Gais
Yves Bulteau
Raymond Audemard
Nadine Monfils
Patrick Eris
Nemo Sandman
Manning Lee Stokes
Roland Green
Lyle Kenyon Engel
Ray Faraday Nelson
Richard D. Nolane
Christian Mantey
Arnaud Dalrune
Yves Chéraqui
Gerald Moreau
Paul Couturiau
Amelina Defontaine
Didier Le Gais
Yves Bulteau
Raymond Audemard
Nadine Monfils
Patrick Eris
Nemo Sandman
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April 21, 2019
Blade is thrust into a dystopian ruin.
The populous is divided between the "Wakers" and the "Dreamers".
Essentially this is a social class schism gone to epic extreme.
Wakers want violence, dominion, and slaves. While the Dreamers want to reclaim their city and live peacefully and recapture their lost arts and technology.
Wakers are the descendants of those who lived through society's collapse, and Dreamers are those who escaped into vaults to dream the waking nightmare away.
Blade has his work cut out for him.
This installment was par for the course. The same sex, violence, and action. I rather enjoyed it.
Recommneded!
P.S. An issue is referenced about book 4, Slave of Sarma. Lord L cannot send Blade twice to the exact coordinates for him go have multiple forays into the same dimension. But this happens in book 4 when Lord L sends Blade into the same dimension as the Russian operative who was posing as Blade. It is unclear how this was pulled off. Bonehead that I am this possible error never occurred to me until now.
The populous is divided between the "Wakers" and the "Dreamers".
Essentially this is a social class schism gone to epic extreme.
Wakers want violence, dominion, and slaves. While the Dreamers want to reclaim their city and live peacefully and recapture their lost arts and technology.
Wakers are the descendants of those who lived through society's collapse, and Dreamers are those who escaped into vaults to dream the waking nightmare away.
Blade has his work cut out for him.
This installment was par for the course. The same sex, violence, and action. I rather enjoyed it.
Recommneded!
P.S. An issue is referenced about book 4, Slave of Sarma. Lord L cannot send Blade twice to the exact coordinates for him go have multiple forays into the same dimension. But this happens in book 4 when Lord L sends Blade into the same dimension as the Russian operative who was posing as Blade. It is unclear how this was pulled off. Bonehead that I am this possible error never occurred to me until now.
February 1, 2019
Richard Blade travels to new worlds and never fails to find danger and love. Good quick men's adventure read. Recommended
December 31, 2025
I kind of admire this books blunt stupidity - but I can't help be disappointed that the story didn't go anywhere more interesting. Lots of violence and T&A though, so I'm fairly certain this is a pretty standard Richard Blade experience.
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