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This Shared Dream

Kathleen Ann Goonan

This Shared Dream

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In War Times won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Novel and was an ALA's Best Science Fiction Novel of 2008. 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. 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 Science Fiction 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.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
Year
2011
ISBN-13
9781429955676
Genre
Science Fiction
Topics
Time travel and alternate historyFamily and memoryUtopia versus dystopia