I have a complete book (first of a series) titled 'In The Lucid Dream Future: Beyond Malanchthon.' I'm looking for beta readers who can read all or part of the book. It is 230,000 words so I can send it out chapter by chapter.
The book is about a young musician who discovers that a song that he's been writing in privacy is mysteriously being played by a heavy metal band. He is driven to extremes and finds out that the thief was a lucid dreamer, somehow dreaming in the future. The story was inspired by reports of clandestine operations involving psychedelic drugs and E. S. P., along with some freaky stories from some lucid dreamers I know. It also touches on 'The Elder Ones' theme from Lovecraft. The story features nonsense sentences throughout to reveal the hero's deranged state of mind, and as relief against the schmaltzy romantic tension that is central to the story. These sentences (which I will call "The Sentences of Gloar" in a later book) are also central to the overall story background in that they are related to the main character's nature, a strange schizophrenic image that follows him throughout, and an image that he sees in The Heart of the Black in the dream world.
Here's the hook as seen on Amazon
An average garage band kid becomes something extraordinary after the mysterious hearing of his own song being played by a satanic death metal band...
No one had yet heard the song that Aldan Jones was writing, but from early on a dim dark unknown presence seemed to surround the inspiration as he wrote...
When during the course of a late summer jam session he discovers the song is being played by a satanic death metal band it drives him to the edge - and thus begins his obsession with the assassination of Sedeth Wehunt, lead guitarist of Cessinducist and the one who he felt was responsible for the theft. Plagued by a schizophrenic image of an eye watching threateningly from the woods he embarks on his relentless mission only to be intercepted by two questionable characters who at first seem to be only figments of his imagination. They lead him into the world of Lucid Dream Future Travel as they claim to know how his song was stolen and offer to reward him if he pulls off a similar heist against the very same perpetrator. But a horrifying precognitive vision of his girlfriend's brutal murder overwhelms him and leads to his discovery of powers beyond his universe and propels him ineluctably on to the final conflict.
The book is about a young musician who discovers that a song that he's been writing in privacy is mysteriously being played by a heavy metal band. He is driven to extremes and finds out that the thief was a lucid dreamer, somehow dreaming in the future. The story was inspired by reports of clandestine operations involving psychedelic drugs and E. S. P., along with some freaky stories from some lucid dreamers I know. It also touches on 'The Elder Ones' theme from Lovecraft. The story features nonsense sentences throughout to reveal the hero's deranged state of mind, and as relief against the schmaltzy romantic tension that is central to the story. These sentences (which I will call "The Sentences of Gloar" in a later book) are also central to the overall story background in that they are related to the main character's nature, a strange schizophrenic image that follows him throughout, and an image that he sees in The Heart of the Black in the dream world.
Here's the hook as seen on Amazon
An average garage band kid becomes something extraordinary after the mysterious hearing of his own song being played by a satanic death metal band...
No one had yet heard the song that Aldan Jones was writing, but from early on a dim dark unknown presence seemed to surround the inspiration as he wrote...
When during the course of a late summer jam session he discovers the song is being played by a satanic death metal band it drives him to the edge - and thus begins his obsession with the assassination of Sedeth Wehunt, lead guitarist of Cessinducist and the one who he felt was responsible for the theft. Plagued by a schizophrenic image of an eye watching threateningly from the woods he embarks on his relentless mission only to be intercepted by two questionable characters who at first seem to be only figments of his imagination. They lead him into the world of Lucid Dream Future Travel as they claim to know how his song was stolen and offer to reward him if he pulls off a similar heist against the very same perpetrator. But a horrifying precognitive vision of his girlfriend's brutal murder overwhelms him and leads to his discovery of powers beyond his universe and propels him ineluctably on to the final conflict.