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eBook Category: Science Fiction
eBook Description: When a dream becomes reality, can the final result be anything but a nightmare? The story of a strange love triangle on a distant world and in a distant time.

eBook Publisher: Fictionwise.com, Published: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1999
Fictionwise Release Date: December 2003

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Available eBook Formats [MultiFormat - What's this?]: Adobe Acrobat (PDF) [96 KB], eReader (PDB) [36 KB], Palm Doc (PDB) [23 KB], Rocket/REB1100 (RB) [22 KB], Microsoft Reader (LIT) [70 KB] - PocketPC 1.0+ Compatible, Franklin eBookMan (FUB) [92 KB], hiebook (KML) [86 KB], Sony Reader (LRF) [58 KB], iSilo (PDB) [19 KB], Mobipocket (PRC) [25 KB], Kindle Compatible (MOBI) [53 KB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [36 KB]
Words: 7406
Reading time: 21-29 min.
Microsoft Reader (LIT) Format: Printing DISABLED, Read-Aloud ENABLED
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At night Samuel sat beside his old friend Lear and watched him dream. Lear's dreams manifested in the air above his prone and twisting figure, malformed creatures and almost familiar people and half-living machines that threatened to become fully substantial and take on strange and complicated lives of their own in this world. Samuel, too, had once dreamed dreams like these.

But now he kept watch over his old friend. Kept watch over Lear's dreams. And destroyed those dreams.

Samuel and Lear. They were the last of their kind.

Samuel acted as a gatekeeper, human Cerberus, guarding the natural world from the supernatural. Doing so, he kept Lear alive. Watching over him, preventing the old man's dreams from becoming primed realities loosed and wreaking havoc upon the world, he held back the executioner's axe. As long as Samuel kept Lear's dreams at bay, DivCom allowed Lear to live.

Lear had once been a DivCom hero. So, too, had Samuel, and the other twenty-seven like them. They had dreamed into existence strange and powerful creatures and superhuman beings, incredible living weapons and organic star-jumping ships, and then, in full control of their creations, directed them against the invading forces of an alien civilization that attacked them from somewhere near the heart of the Milky Way. And they had triumphed.