Re: YASID: mechanical telepathy, catatonia, Colt 1911

On 28 Feb 2006 13:42:35 -0800, bm2617@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

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Don't remember the name or author either, but just to add a bit more
detail, the catatonic in his dreams inhabits an elaborate
sword-and-sorcery fantasy world, in which he is a Conan-like hero
figure. The protagonist keeps messing with the heroic fantasy, until
the dreamer in a final fit of spite puts them in a scenario where
they're facing an ultimate Lovecraftian horror...

That sounds like either Brunner's Gerry Howson story -- I think the
title was "The City of the Tiger" -- that got incorporated into THE
WHOLE MAN, except the telepathy in that wasn't mechanical, or
Zelazny's THE DREAM MASTER.




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