Project Gutenberg 2016-04-06 Public domain in the USA. 91 Lafferty, R. A. 1914 2002 Lafferty, Raphael Aloysius Gaughan, Jack 1930 1985 Gaughan, John Brian Francis Gaughan Dream World Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Dream World" by R. A. Lafferty is a surreal science fiction novel written during the early 1960s. The narrative revolves around the concept of shared dreams, specifically a grotesque and nightmarish world that many individuals begin to experience simultaneously. The story explores themes of reality versus illusion, societal panic, and the interplay between dreams and the waking world. In "Dream World," the protagonist, Bascomb Swicegood, discovers that he shares a horrific dream with a stranger, Teresa Ananias, leading to a widespread phenomenon where an entire population is plagued by nightmarish visions. As people report encountering repulsive images—like wart-hogs and strange bodily experiences—they sink into despair and confusion about the nature of their reality. An influential figure urges society to make a decision about which world is real, resulting in a mass return to a more mundane existence. Ultimately, the nightmarish shared experience fades, leaving a sense of eerie normalcy, as the characters are left to reconcile their memories of horror with their everyday lives. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Short stories Dreams -- Fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Fiction 40276 40281 2024-09-21T13:34:00.822195 2023-09-22T10:28:42.477803 text/html text/html 36677 2016-04-05T19:36:30 text/html; charset=us-ascii 151447 2016-04-05T19:36:30 text/html; charset=us-ascii application/zip 171366 2024-09-21T13:34:02.689212 application/epub+zip 170291 2024-09-21T13:34:01.363226 application/epub+zip 74675 2024-09-21T13:34:00.986192 application/epub+zip 202112 2024-09-21T13:34:03.919214 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 195062 2024-09-21T13:34:02.487193 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 99624 2022-09-23T14:17:24.312465 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 34044 33949 2024-09-21T13:34:00.716204 2023-09-22T10:28:42.348811 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 34265 2016-04-05T19:36:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 12925 2016-04-05T19:36:30 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19816 2024-09-21T13:34:04.049183 application/rdf+xml 17164 2024-09-21T13:34:01.047202 image/jpeg 3175 2024-09-21T13:34:01.016200 image/jpeg 152484 2024-09-21T13:34:00.832202 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia en.wikipedia