The Alien Dream Machine has started up.
Gunnar is a young Las Vegas PI who struggles with narcolepsy, falling asleep at unpredictable moments. He tracks down a man who cheats at casino dice, only to learn that the guy is an extraterrestrial. Phane, the gambler, begs Gunnar to help him. He and his family are hunted by gangsters who want his dice secret. Gunnar is charmed by the stranger and wants to help, but Phane becomes seriously wounded. Gunnar and his sleep doctor try a desperate plan to revive the dying alien using focused dreams. But do aliens dream? “Space” is not the final frontier. The mind is.
Phane fans will be delighted by this one, third in the “Phane” series featuring Phane Vikos, alien from planet Vikos in the Cygnus constellation, stranded on Earth. His partner Flooma appears in this one, too (“she” was introduced in the second volume of the trilogy). And, slight spoiler: a new character appears, Makos, the new offspring of Phane and Flooma. Makos is adorable, slightly smaller than a basketball, but just as green and tentacled as his parents.
Gunnar, the young PI, is an immigrant from Oslo who watched endless reruns on TV there of The Rockford Files, a low-budget American TV series from the 1970s. Gunnar’s childhood dream was to become Jim Rockford, master PI. Now he’s a licensed PI in Las Vegas, but that’s about where the similarities stop. He has to outgrow his childish dreams and face reality, whatever that might be. For him, its a world that includes green aliens from Vikos.
Alien Dream Machine (83,500 words), by William X. Adams, is available now:
Ebook – Kindle: ISBN: 978-1-7355412-5-9 327 pp
Paper – KDP: ISBN: 978-1-7355412-6-6 333 pp kdp 6×9
Ebook – Smashwords ISBN: 978-1-7355412-4-2 (Epub)
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