This Shared Dream eBook Kathleen Goonan
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Kathleen Ann Goonan introduced Sam Dance and his wife, Bette, and their quest to alter our present reality for the better in her novel In War Times (winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and ALA's Best Science Fiction Novel of 2008). Now, in This Shared Dream, she tells the story of the next generation.
The three Dance kids, seemingly abandoned by both parents when they were younger, are now adults and are all disturbed by memories of a reality that existed in place of their world. The older girl, Jill, even remembers the disappearance of their mother while preventing the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Goonan has created a new kind of utopian SF novel, in which the changes in history have created a present world that is in many ways superior to our own, while in other worlds people strive to prevent their own erasure by restoring the ills to ours. This Shared Dream is certainly the most provocative SF speculation of the year, and perhaps the decade.
WASHINGTON POST REVIEW
While This Shared Dream is plenty exciting and expertly paced, there's a quietness, a gentleness, throughout. Its characters talk far more than they act. They aren't just action figures; they're real people, damaged yet striving, and we come to care deeply about them. Such is the power of art—the real, not imaginary, empathy-creating device. Living up to its title, This Shared Dream is ultimately a novel about connectedness, in every sense, and the possibility of greater harmony in what used to be called the family of man.
- Michael Dirda
PRAISE FOR THIS SHARED DREAM
“A tough-minded, kind-hearted, fiercely intelligent novel.” --Ursula K. Le Guin
"THIS SHARED DREAM is an intensely rich, original and provocative novel that is worth checking out."--Book Zone review 11th Jul, 2011 (Interzone 235)
“Kathleen Ann Goonan’s THIS SHARED DREAM is a richly imagined tale of gypsies and jazz, Nazis and nanotechnology, war and assassination and the Summer of Love. As elegant and complicated as the ever-changing time streams that wind through it, THIS SHARED DREAM is a must-read in this or any world.” --Connie Willis
“A wild ride through alternate histories. Brilliant.” --Jack McDevitt
“What if you could travel through time to fix what is wrong with the world? The world would resist, and the very act of trying would create parallel worlds with their own problems. This wondrous book, the story of a handful of people who seek to alter the twentieth century to create a better future, acknowledges the inhumanity of war and yet celebrates the joys of music, art, friendship, and family. And it reminds us that the future is made by the children of the present. I loved this book, and I heartily recommend it.”–Eileen Gunn
AUTHOR Kathleen Ann Goonan burst into prominence with QUEEN CITY JAZZ. "Spectacular," said Locus. "The most important debut novel I've seen this year." . THE BONES OF TIME, her widely acclaimed second novel, became a finalist for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2000. Her third novel MISSISSIPPI BLUES won immediate praise from Publisher's Weekly and made her "...a major voice in the field." CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY, a Nebula finalist, according to Publisher's Weekly's starred review is "...as intellectually demanding yet emotionally satisfying as Duke Ellington's best..." In another starred review Publisher's Weekly calls LIGHT MUSIC, also a Nebula finalist, "Exuberant... " Peter Straub writes of IN WAR TIMES “Kathleen Goonan has come through to the kind of control that makes every startling fresh development, and this novel bristles with astonishing moments of development, seem inevitable. Not only does Goonan know that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie changed the world, she understands that every vision of the future conceals a deep yearning for one's own specific past. That's real wisdom."
Kathleen is a visiting professor at Georgia Tech, School of Literature, Commun
This Shared Dream eBook Kathleen Goonan
This Shared Dream (2011) is the second SF novel in this series, following In War Times. In the previous volume, Sam had tried to volunteer in 1940, but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. A year later, he found an aspiring recruiter and was accepted into the US Army.He was pulled out of Camp Sutton and sent to Washington, DC, for special training. The course met in a hastily erected structure on the roof of a War Department building and covered a range of esoteric subjects. The fourth instructor was Dr. Hadntz, an exile from Budapest.
On December 6, 1941, Hadntz seduced Sam so that she could give him the plans for an exotic device. According to her, the apparatus would promote world peace. It communicated with human brains to change attitudes, but it obviously was not yet perfected. Hadntz also told him that it was a time machine of sorts.
In this novel, Jill Dance is the oldest daughter of Sam and Bette. She is married to Elmore and has a son, Steven.
Brian Dance is the younger brother of Jill. He is an engineer and owns a construction company. He is married to Cindy and they have two daughters, Zoe and Bitsy.
Megan is the youngest child of Sam and Bette. She has a doctorate in molecular biology and does memory research for the National Institute of Health. She is married to Jim and they have a five year old daughter, Abbie.
Sam Dance was an Army engineer during World War II, working on development of the M-9 fire director. He also worked with Wink on the Device.
Elani Hadntz is part Magyar Gypsy. She had trained as a physician, but later became a physicist. She has been studying the quantum nature of the brain.
Bette Elegante Dance was a member of the OSS organization. She also knows Hadntz. Then she married Sam.
Al Winklemeyer is from upstate New York. Wink also plays jazz music on the cornet. He worked with Sam on the M-9 fire director and the Device.
In this story, Jill remembers two realities. In one, John Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, but JFK lived in the other. The timestream changed after JFK was saved and the Cold War became a horrible memory.
Unfortunately, Jill is very stressed and occasionally forgets which timestream she is now living. She is completing on her doctorate in Political Science and taking the last required History course. Little slips of the tongue are quite embarrassing.
She is also having moments of reverie that leaves her body working in automatic mode. After the last class, she turns left instead of right and ends up in her old neighborhood. Becoming aware of the error, she just continues to the old house.
She can't find the house key, so she breaks a plate glass window and falls inside. She cuts herself badly and the neighbors call an ambulance. After admission to the hospital, Elmore has her committed for insanity.
Jill is drugged and woozy in the hospital. Jill's siblings rally around and fight the commitment. The doctors ease up on the medication, but she still has to go through counseling. They are not sure what the problem was, but do release her after a few weeks.
The counselor suggests that Jill talk with her siblings about her issues. Jill hasn't been able to talk freely with them for years, especially after her time travel to Dallas to save Kennedy. Brian seems to be in denial and is unwilling to discuss anything strange.
Jill decides to divorce Elmore. She and Stevie move into the old Victorian mansion where she and her siblings had been raised. It has been left empty for decades, so needs a lot of work.
Megan and Brian start a discussion about dreams of events that hadn't happened. When she mentions something, his dreams have the same episodes. They decide to discuss this with Jill.
Jill goes back to work at the World Bank. She is head of a project to set up prefabricated school houses in poverty areas around the world. This project is going well, but the next step is even more extensive: nano seeds that will grow into various school house forms depending upon the needs of the students. These schools are for children -- and maybe adults -- and will be distributed without official requests.
Meanwhile, Bette has come back to this timestream. She avoids her children, but uses hidden rooms in the old mansion where Jill now lives. She believes that Jill is at risk from her enemies.
Bette takes Jill's notes on the nanoseed schools and enters them into her Q, a quantum computer/phone. Then she sends the papers to Hadntz. To her surprise, she receives an immediate reply; the project will be implemented immediately and shipping should start in a few weeks.
This tale is about another timeline than ours. It branches from our timeline in 1945 and again in 1963, when Kennedy lives to make a speech. Jill feels guilty for changing the lives of her siblings.
A small group is working with Hadntz to eliminate warfare from human society. Sam, Wink and Bette are aware of the Device, but their children don't know about it at first. Others know that the Device probably exists, but don't know how it works.
Hadntz and her associates have introduced Qs, spacies and other artifacts produced by the Device into human lives. These objects have definitely affected everyday lives in the timestream. That world is a better place, but is still not perfect.
The Device is working by changing children. This story is mostly about the next generaton and their children. Jill, Brian and Megan have been changed by an earlier version of the Device and now their children are being exposed to these influences.
Read the first volume before this one. It can be understood without the first book, but is more confusing that way. This may be the last volume in the sequence, but a collection of short stories by this author -- Angel and You Dogs -- has recently been released.
Highly recommended for Goonan fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of alternate timelines, cognitive processes, and confused children. Read and enjoy!
-Arthur W. Jordin
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This Shared Dream eBook Kathleen Goonan Reviews
I really like her writing style. I is very expressive and the characters (if not the plot) are so well done that I can easily imagine and empathize with them as the story slowly unfolds. Don't tell me the ending because I want to savor the book until it happens.
In this science fiction and fantasy, what I viewed as a kind of I-phone called Q seemed to provide the ability to slip stream between time lines in which one is ours an d the second is a time in which the Kennedy bros. Lived and Montessori schools flourished and evolving peace depended only on getting rid of some bad guys who liked the old nasty world. A read that depends on a liberal view of science and humanity and some imagination.
The Dance siblings find themselves in a strange predicament. They have two sets of memories. One set is from a timeline where JFK was asassinated in Dallas and one is from a timeline where he wasn't. When they were children their parents were working on a project to bring peace to the world, then they disappeared. Jill, Brian and Megan are adults now and have children of their own. Jill spends a month in a sanitorium, because of her confused memories. After her release she notices strange men watching her and her family. They are wearing homberg's, hats fashionable in the 1940's. She then receives a threatening phone call telling her to give them the "device." What is this device? Is it the infinite game board they played with as children? The game board that sent Jill back in time to thwart Kennedy's asassination?
This novel is a sequel to "In War Times." In that book Sam Dance, his wife Bette, and his friend Wink work with a scientist names Elaini Hadnitz to create a device that would end all wars. This is the story of Sam and Bette's children and the world that they created through the device and time travel.
This book is full to over flowing with ideas. The author believes that social equality and education will stop people from starting wars. Montesouri schools are mentioned promenently in this book. Children have classbooks that are like IPads that are used to link all the children of the world from every socio-economic background. The Internet isn't mentioned, they have something called Q that is the equivalent. Besides the classbooks, Q and the infinite game board, there are the Spacies, astronaut figurines that were given away in cereal boxes. These action figures used nano technology to change the conciousness of children so they wanted to learn and live peacefully with others. A memory drug is used along with technology to change peoples minds by showing them the memories of the victims of war. Time travel is used to change key nexus points.
I could go on and on, but I don't want to spoil this intelligent novel for others. This is a beautiful story of family, memories, and the dream of a world without war.
This Shared Dream (2011) is the second SF novel in this series, following In War Times. In the previous volume, Sam had tried to volunteer in 1940, but was rejected because of his poor eyesight. A year later, he found an aspiring recruiter and was accepted into the US Army.
He was pulled out of Camp Sutton and sent to Washington, DC, for special training. The course met in a hastily erected structure on the roof of a War Department building and covered a range of esoteric subjects. The fourth instructor was Dr. Hadntz, an exile from Budapest.
On December 6, 1941, Hadntz seduced Sam so that she could give him the plans for an exotic device. According to her, the apparatus would promote world peace. It communicated with human brains to change attitudes, but it obviously was not yet perfected. Hadntz also told him that it was a time machine of sorts.
In this novel, Jill Dance is the oldest daughter of Sam and Bette. She is married to Elmore and has a son, Steven.
Brian Dance is the younger brother of Jill. He is an engineer and owns a construction company. He is married to Cindy and they have two daughters, Zoe and Bitsy.
Megan is the youngest child of Sam and Bette. She has a doctorate in molecular biology and does memory research for the National Institute of Health. She is married to Jim and they have a five year old daughter, Abbie.
Sam Dance was an Army engineer during World War II, working on development of the M-9 fire director. He also worked with Wink on the Device.
Elani Hadntz is part Magyar Gypsy. She had trained as a physician, but later became a physicist. She has been studying the quantum nature of the brain.
Bette Elegante Dance was a member of the OSS organization. She also knows Hadntz. Then she married Sam.
Al Winklemeyer is from upstate New York. Wink also plays jazz music on the cornet. He worked with Sam on the M-9 fire director and the Device.
In this story, Jill remembers two realities. In one, John Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, but JFK lived in the other. The timestream changed after JFK was saved and the Cold War became a horrible memory.
Unfortunately, Jill is very stressed and occasionally forgets which timestream she is now living. She is completing on her doctorate in Political Science and taking the last required History course. Little slips of the tongue are quite embarrassing.
She is also having moments of reverie that leaves her body working in automatic mode. After the last class, she turns left instead of right and ends up in her old neighborhood. Becoming aware of the error, she just continues to the old house.
She can't find the house key, so she breaks a plate glass window and falls inside. She cuts herself badly and the neighbors call an ambulance. After admission to the hospital, Elmore has her committed for insanity.
Jill is drugged and woozy in the hospital. Jill's siblings rally around and fight the commitment. The doctors ease up on the medication, but she still has to go through counseling. They are not sure what the problem was, but do release her after a few weeks.
The counselor suggests that Jill talk with her siblings about her issues. Jill hasn't been able to talk freely with them for years, especially after her time travel to Dallas to save Kennedy. Brian seems to be in denial and is unwilling to discuss anything strange.
Jill decides to divorce Elmore. She and Stevie move into the old Victorian mansion where she and her siblings had been raised. It has been left empty for decades, so needs a lot of work.
Megan and Brian start a discussion about dreams of events that hadn't happened. When she mentions something, his dreams have the same episodes. They decide to discuss this with Jill.
Jill goes back to work at the World Bank. She is head of a project to set up prefabricated school houses in poverty areas around the world. This project is going well, but the next step is even more extensive nano seeds that will grow into various school house forms depending upon the needs of the students. These schools are for children -- and maybe adults -- and will be distributed without official requests.
Meanwhile, Bette has come back to this timestream. She avoids her children, but uses hidden rooms in the old mansion where Jill now lives. She believes that Jill is at risk from her enemies.
Bette takes Jill's notes on the nanoseed schools and enters them into her Q, a quantum computer/phone. Then she sends the papers to Hadntz. To her surprise, she receives an immediate reply; the project will be implemented immediately and shipping should start in a few weeks.
This tale is about another timeline than ours. It branches from our timeline in 1945 and again in 1963, when Kennedy lives to make a speech. Jill feels guilty for changing the lives of her siblings.
A small group is working with Hadntz to eliminate warfare from human society. Sam, Wink and Bette are aware of the Device, but their children don't know about it at first. Others know that the Device probably exists, but don't know how it works.
Hadntz and her associates have introduced Qs, spacies and other artifacts produced by the Device into human lives. These objects have definitely affected everyday lives in the timestream. That world is a better place, but is still not perfect.
The Device is working by changing children. This story is mostly about the next generaton and their children. Jill, Brian and Megan have been changed by an earlier version of the Device and now their children are being exposed to these influences.
Read the first volume before this one. It can be understood without the first book, but is more confusing that way. This may be the last volume in the sequence, but a collection of short stories by this author -- Angel and You Dogs -- has recently been released.
Highly recommended for Goonan fans and for anyone else who enjoys tales of alternate timelines, cognitive processes, and confused children. Read and enjoy!
-Arthur W. Jordin
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