We search for exoplanets whose stats are Earthlike. But mass, chemistry, warmth and air do not a biosphere make!
Geography alone--the mere placement of lands and seas--can also make a world lush or barren...
CAUTION: CENTAUR BARBIE NUDITY
I'm a dog princess, on a world where kibble falls from heaven. When I meet our species' guardian angels...
CAUTION: DOG NUDITY, LAWYERS
I dream a Chinese fable: how the poet Li Po was abucted by the gods, till they face heavenly justice...
CAUTION: ABDUCTION, DRUNKS, EVIL PUN
The children of some castaways refuse to go 'home': to them, this shore IS home. So what won't I leave?
I'm a political aide to the leader of a hot-tempered, clawed, fanged alien people. And then my boss dies...
On a scorching world not built for people like us,
I find someone who seems to be a lot like me...
I was walking in the Mission, in San Francisco, when two sisters came up to me who no one else could see...
CAUTION: FURRY NUDITY
I walk through worlds, fight a deadly lake demon, and work magic--but I mustn't go lucid...
We ride on a flying saucer made of stone. Atop the great cliffs, we meet a giant and
warn him not to slip. He doesn't appreciate advice from little alien tourist twerps...
I'm on Mars. The terraforming is going well. Then saboteurs set off a laserbomb in the street near me...
CAUTION: TERRORISM
Lunar terraforming lags behind Mars; a global ice storm hits, like the bad old days. But the future...
I find myself in astral China. The Empress is banished, the Jester rules. Wisdom is lost.
We need an Imperial Dragon...
Alien abductions upset us--being studied, treated like animals. But isn't that how we treat other species--
study, exploit, ignore their feelings? That night, I dream one dog on a leash paralyzes a civilization...
I wake up as someone else. I go through her working day, till Captain Kirk comes to take me to...
Deep in the caves, a Voice announces I've gone as far as the human mind can stand. But ahead, I see...
I join the alliance against humorless humanoids who are invading funny-animal planets...
I'm in an alien empire dominated by big lizard-bugs. Humanoids are second-class, but
they're trusted with weapons--I witness a human squad executing a lizard for dissidence...
CAUTION: REPRESSION, OR IMMUNE SYSTEM?
I had this near-nightmare about climbing a DNA stair up to the sky, and stepping off...
CAUTION: NUDITY, INCEST ISSUES
Singing a Lennon love song on a planet of giant women provokes first wonder, then disbelief. Why?
I'm on the run, on the moon. Cyborgs toss bombs at me. Yikes! Is this what melted Mare Orientalis?
CAUTION: NUCLEAR IRRESPONSIBILITY
A blind girl had trained for years to get revenge on Lük (or Lock), a winter god in the form of an ice wolf.
Defeating the god will restore her sight, but she didn't know the world will fall into endless winter...
A looming figure on the border of the new Lunar Republic, who told me it's time to turn from war to art...
I'm at a fancy wedding on Mars, I think, but slowly realize
the black sky and huge blue ball mean this lawn is on...
...the Moon. In the open. What are we breathing? Well... old money, I think.
A vast sea-world with 7 times Earth's mass, whose isles are home to at least 19 intelligent species...
CAUTION: CUTE ALIENS, WEIRD SEX CUSTOMS, GODLESS EVOLUTION!
My friend Mark is ready. He evaporates into the spirit realm--as we all do here when we die! Flesh to glass to air...
The starship Enterprise. A world ahead sends the Captain and the Nurse odd psychic urges. Follow or resist?
This handmade globe of Mars, state-of-the-art for 1909, has Schiaparelli's
nomenclature and Lowell's canals--mostly illusory, though not quite all...
Mars as it will be 1000 years from now, terraformed. A guided tour with photos...
Jaguar Mask: a were-jaguar stuck in human form asks me to sew a new jaguar face on."But won't it hurt?...
Martian Airlock: I'm suitless on Mars. Freezing, choking, I dive into an airlock & slam the switch--but it's sabotaged...
On Old Mars, before it died, two rival families' teasing finally goes too far, despite the whale's warning...
CAUTION: VIOLENCE
Martian robots pester me. I flee through the Asteroids, leaving chaos, cratering Earth.
Years later on my farm, a bot shows up disguised as Freud. I start mudslinging...
I'm a small boy in a ship docking in Mars Orbital Station. I meet a strange man: myself as an adult! Uh-oh...
I'm inside a magical novel by Patricia McKillip, amid tricksters, cosplayers, spooks, sex changes, levitation and (sigh) cops...
CAUTION: COYOTE SEX
As a kid I was haunted by the parallels between Menolly of Pern and me...
I meet a shapeshifting mentor who warns of coming war (9/11?). Then a sentient book, "The Art of War," gets intimately involved...
CAUTION: ELECTRODES, LIBROPHILIA
I dream I live on Mercury--but the Mercury of my childhood, before it was known to spin!
Tidelocked--one side fire, one side ice. We farm in domes, between. Until the sun brightens...
CAUTION: RETRO SCIENCE
A mad experiment one night in Micrography, with a midnight rant for scripture and my girlfriend for God...
CAUTION: BLASPHEMY OF SOME KIND OR OTHER
I'm a shaggy primitive whose tribe's outgrown our caves. We migrate, and meet two new species of people...
Strange oaths are proposed for the first expedition to the Uranian moon Miranda...
God offers gifts to pilgrims, so my sister enters his door. Fierce light shoots out...
From the punk clubs of Frisco to the Safeways of Si Valley to the vermilion sands of Mars,
Silky the were-nightmare fights for the Misfits against every cliche in science fiction...
Everyone has a personal moon. At first, mine disappointed me, till a bard dumped his trash on it, and...
Near a mysterious sculpture garden on the moon, lives the blind, bike-riding sage I seek: Moon-Cat...
I made a cold moon of burnished metal, rusted and scraped. But then this warm mare reared...
How the Supreme Court gave my brother antlers, and where his soul went: where I'll go, now that I know...
We hippies won, but now we're backward and isolated; it's time we joined the rest of our alternate Earth...
I'm John Muir reborn on Mars, defending the forests from treecutters,
who try to assassinate me. A year later Robinson's Red Mars comes out...
In a world of wizards, many have gone silent. They seem to forget speech exists. A toxin, a disease? But what explains
people's calm as more go mute? No, it's an insidious spell--with a penumbra making us take its spread for granted...
CAUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR WORLD
I dreamed I was trapped in the maze of my pacifist vegetarian feminist anarchist eco-conscience...
I always thought I saw differently than others, but when someone builds the Goggles...
My glass heart survived the rocket's blast, but I'm stranded on this barren world.
Wrapped in glamor, we climb a steep forbidding stair into a rosy, fake tomorrow...
I'm a wildcat in a cat/fox team led by a woman who wants us to merge with a man/wolf team...
CAUTION: LANGUAGE
Mythic creatures round a woodland pool want to heal a businessman. Do too many cooks spoil the soup?
DAY: My doctor sharply upped my meds. Insomnia, sweats, mania, tachycardia. Ask my dreams: "Overdose?"
DREAM: I try to get a dentist to fix the work he botched. A staffer yelling "Nigger!" attacks me with a razor!
A MONTH LATER: The doctor sneers "Symptoms are subjective!" Because uppity patients are just n...
CAUTION: THE N-WORD. OH, AND MALPRACTICE, TOO
My sister & I swim round a weirdly shrunken Pacific. Near Fiji, we blunder too close to the drain...
After seeing an Einstein biography I find myself in the bathrooms of Thought-Experiment High, and...
CAUTION: DARK SIDE OF AN ICON
A model of a moon, half-Europa, half-Mars, with (intelligent?) life in seas under a skin of ice...
On terraformed Mars, we set out to climb Mt Olympus without
oxygen masks. The first miles are OK, but the air thins until...
CAUTION: ANTICIPATED DEATH?
An alien beach scene--as seen through eyes that see bodies’ energy fields more than surface forms...
As I bike home at night, strange doings--a rat is sacrificed; gemstones delivered;
an astronaut shows glowing alien objects; a second rat becomes a... firefighter?
Sexy dreams of Chinese archeology, authorized by the fairies,
force me to face that my family abused me & lied about it...
Humans and elves like me can get along, but not oni (Japanese demons)--they'll hurt anyone for gain...
CAUTION: POLITICAL BITTERNESS
I want to join the inner circle of America's political elite.
But to do that I have to survive the Ordeal by Infrastructure...
While conducting a census of fairies in Golden Gate Park, I fall in love
with an abused oriole-girl, and we try to heal one another...
CAUTION: AWKWARD SEX
A suspicious exobiologist warns me that otter from Titan may not be the amiable, nerdy celebrity it seems. But...
I rise out of my body, find I'm invulnerable, visit the moon, with its volcanic rocks, re-enter
my body, "wake" and write the dream--only to wake again and find all my notes gone!...
A vagabond king showed me the way into Faerie, and it
made my fortune. But now it's time to pass the gift on...
At a strange gate between worlds with high and low sea levels,
a meddling spirit prods me to clear a path for a salt torrent...
A contest! Here's a wide, fertile world full of empty ecological niches for intelligent creatures. Design one!
When Perissa, an exhibitionistic centaur, bares her body in a crowded Coliseum,
she also bares a human-supremacist plot...
CAUTION: EXHIBITIONISM, SPECISM
I work the info desk in a futuristic library. But one question leads me into a DNA-helix, a tornado of doubt...
A wizard who loves spots and dots invites me into his
beach house, hungry for advice on his peculiar fears...
I suspect the pinball champion of Jupiter is cheating. I try to scare her psychic confederate out of hiding...
After weeks of headaches I dream of a fatal, mosquito-borne plague.
Humanity looks doomed till my friends devise a folk remedy...
I'm the first man on Planet Cat, falling in love with my guide. And then I'm the Cat, falling for an alien ape...
CAUTION: NUDE CAT
I'm building a planetary model a kilometer across, inset in Bernal Hill like an eye in a socket.
My intern Silky kicks the globe, scuffing a caravan trail in a desert. Needs to be crookeder...
CAUTION: FATSHAMING? OR CALLING OUT SKINNYSHAMING?
19 nondream imaginary worlds rendered in text, art, & sculpture. Most teem with intelligent life--alien Edens!
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, MATH, SOCIALISM, EVOLUTION
The roots and reasons and back-stories for the nineteen virtual worlds making up Planetocopia...
A quarrel between psychic adepts heats up to a war,
thawing Pluto. What will the ice-tribes wish for?
I'm a Martian revolutionary, making the glaciers grow. The equator's still dry, but change is coming...
A bunch of primitives try to trick their way into the Federation, slipping around the Prime Directive...
I'm an ambassador from the Milky Way to the energy-beings
who rule the Magellanic Clouds. Or am really just their pet?
One by one, we're pulled under the water, the earth... eaten. That's the fate of all flesh. And we're flesh.
CAUTION: HORROR
We drive into a zone of perpetual night to see Sweet Melinda, but veins of light burst
across the landscape, and our time-path splits! I'm living two lives at once...
I'm a telepathic rabbit defending our world from space-laser attack. We do, but do we modernize too much?
CAUTION: IDEAS
The rest of us heavenly bodies have each other, but from the Sun's viewpoint, we're just rubble. Alone...
1: My dad can't see my world. Literally can't see my world...
2: The House of Busyness is unlivable--busy, crowded, noisy...
3: Achievement takes twelve factors; any one can block you...
My dream shows me how one world can be a fiction within another that's a fiction within the first!
Dreams aren't simulations but windows into worlds. So be nice to dream-figures! Turns out you ARE one...
I was trapped in a Handmaid's Tale dystopia; I was a mannequin, naked &
helpless. I couldn't even walk. But I hid one rebellious act: I kept a diary...
CAUTION: CARTOON NUDITY, CARTOON DYSTOPIA
I was timid. Red scared me. But this huge confident dream-beast hinted at a new energy...
I dreamed a tired soldier visited an oracle or priestess,
who hummed a simple tune and provided refuge...
Rome never fell. I'm a poor kid. I sign up for a duel against an adult arena fighter.
Poor odds, but I have nothing to lose! Street kids like me die young anyway...
CAUTION: BRUTAL SOCIETY (unlike, of course, ours)
I'm not ambivalent--I'm confused! I live here by the Rift Zone and I don't. I'm single and not. Two lives!...
A mad scientist sneaks me into a museum that holds the Ring of Power I made at 14. I put it on, and
slip into the spirit world--as a dragon! An ice-drake sent by Sauron comes to duel me for my Ring...
Six women in six similar feudal empires swap places repeatedly. They can never meet,
but they can leave notes, each helping out the next soul to swap in...
CAUTION: ADVANCED DREAMWORK
I'm a raft guide on a circular river that may just be reincarnation. A girl in my
tour group jumps ship: she dreads the white water of rocky relationships ahead...
CAUTION: METAPHYSICS, SEX, WEAK SOULS...
Earth has rainbow rings. They're braided like Saturn's, so their shadows create tinted microclimates...
After too much TV, I dream I'm plotting against a regime of suave, treacherous magical beings. But
a unicorn sorceress suggests I enlist the robots. She's right--they find plutocratic thaumocracy ugly...
CAUTION: ANTI-CAPITALIST
New moons appear. I try to mash them into a spare Earth, but botch the orbits.
So now, runaway moons rumble down a steep San Francisco hill...
CAUTION: ALWAYS SET PARKING BRAKE
I wake up dreamnesic but singing a nonsense line about "samphires"--whatever
they are. Half an hour later, I encounter the word for the first time in 45 years...
Sunbathing on Saturn's rings with a girl who's preparing for reincarnation--like me.
She's cute, but she chucks litter in the Bay of Rebirth. Maybe not Ms. Right, then...
Our expedition to Saturn finds new moons with huge, deep craters staring
at us like gigantic eyes--because they are gigantic eyes...
I visit a world of dinosaurs who fly small planes and live in glowing tree-cities...
I was on a terrace overlooking a waterfall, where a giant rabbit and a musical dragon told me...
Aliens, presidents, hypnotherapy, dancing molars, riots,
witches, flying pianos, lettuce... yet there is a point.
Sharp seams between realities cross Silicon Valley; I
end up in the Dark Castle of the Oracle. When I wake...
Reactionaries smash a paper. To rebuild, the editor must sell
the sacred tiki carvings! But gods don't LIKE being sold...
CAUTION: MORAL QUANDARY
A dry little world with many small seas, Serrana has at least six intelligent species
and an anarchist culture. It's a tribute to Ursula Le Guin's anarchist utopia,
"The Dispossessed", and Kropotkin's theories of biological cooperation...
CAUTION: ANARCHIST POLITICS, ALIEN NUDITY
A writer invents an absurd setting for his Utopia, a lens of ice floating atop
Saturn's atmosphere--but then such sessile lenses turn out to be real.
The dream's details suggest buying a certain stock. I do, and...
I'm teaching in a wizard's college near Mt Shasta when one astral world decides to occupy another...
Shevek invents time-travel and discreetly alters the past. But the future alters
Shevek's present, to undo his changes! Who's sabotaging him? Or... WHAT?
A Goddess-worshiping general gets a visit from her twin daughters who bring a puzzling message...
I tilted the Earth, and worked out its new ecology--part Mars, part steambath. Visit the Mediterranean Abyss
ruled by giant ravens, and Patagonia, ruled by mammoths, and Antarctica's jungles, ruled by lemurs...
a dream exposing what my brain's up to when I forget my dreams!
I wander the galaxy in my dreams, finding and testing crowds to see if anyone reacts
to the sound of shouted English or Chinese. One in a thousand does! This implies...
CAUTION: SCIENCE AND SHAMANISM DON'T MIX (or do they?)
Day: Robert Bly's book Iron John, claiming men need male mentors, annoys me.
Dream: the giants co-opted Captain Picard of Star Trek, but we don't need him to rebel...
CAUTION: MOCKS ROBERT BLY
I'm a trade rep for Terra, on a new world. But an old rival, a rep from another world, arrives, and...
I'm in an alternate-history American Revolution with Silky the
talking black mare. We sail for Europe as diplomats...
Silky, my often-animal anima, leads me into a strange
pagan church where we get married at last...
An astral travel advisory. You'll fly better, if (before you leave your body) you...
My friend sleeps with an alien. He's ugly, but I don't care. What bothers me is, he eats bits of himself...
CAUTION: SEX, RECREATIONAL CANNIBALISM, PROSTITUTION, THE KITCHEN SINK
First, suck up 90% of Earth's seas. Now wait 90,000 years for life to adapt. The continents are now
Tibetan plateaus above steamy new Deeps, ruled by giant parrots, ravens and otters...
1: Purple squid saboteurs flood our cliffhouse. 2: My oyster-ranching girlfriend has a snobby aunt.
3: I'm stuck in a stranger's bondage dream! 4: Shepherds on the sea-floor watch for gliderwolves...
CAUTION: EMBARRASSING BONDAGE IN #3
Exploring a planet in the Sirius system, we raft down a river. A local guy warns
there's a waterfall ahead, but my raftmates won't believe him! Over we go. Ow...
Next day, glad my druggy housemate's moving out, I get disappointing news...
We play croquet with worlds for balls, and gravity wells
for goals. How do the worlds see it? Well... I find out.
My girlfriend and I can fly, but detectives shadow us. How to lose them? By sticking to the beach and...
CAUTION: BIZARRE CREATURES, FRANK LANGUAGE
Business solved the problem of cheap foreign labor: slavery's legal again. So our firm buys cheap losers...
As Mars demands independence from Earth, Jovians enslave us all! Now freedom-fighting is personal...
I cross San Francisco on public transit--a network of children's slides. One leads into...
A wormhole full of aliens, where a goofy-haired reporter interviews a hacker...
I dream I'm suicidal; but I'm saved when I'm shown the flow of human development--the same pattern,
from souls to civilizations! Eddies and knots recur, but the challenges slowly get more spiritual.
NEXT DAY: I learn what my shaman-friend Dee just dreamed. And now I'm unsure whose dream this is...
CAUTION: IDEAS
In a desert crawling with aliens who can absorb your mind, I propose a truce, and gain...
The future. Humanity's trapped--no energy. Because aliens looted our world before we evolved! Now...
I'm a wolf in an ashram studying astral travel with my spirit-wife. Our souls blend a bit, enraging
our guru, a minor Hindu god, who sends demons to make us stop this spiritual "contamination"...
A great war shrinks to wrestling, then hopping from page to page! Once they were worlds to me, but now...
After my dad lets me down I dream black may be white, and white, black--if you're a Sphinx...
My job is to set up portals to other realities, and
create secret routes through our world between them...
While I study how humans went extinct, my
daughter happily splashes in the sea...
I spy on a girl learning magic in a quilted ditch. She lets me join her telekinesis lesson! Can my mind move a balloon?
Then I tour a witch-world where normality's shameful. One kid's not witch or normal--he keeps turning into Donald Duck!
CAUTION: DISNEY = DISABILITY?
Squirrel Girl and I try to find a private room, but Hal the mad computer in 2001
spies on us and our spaceship captain orders us to clean the ion tubes...
CAUTION: SQUIRREL NUDITY
Weird blue snow covers a dump of unwanted historical statues, but they seem
less political than... strange. Is that a griffin? What's really getting covered here?
In a alien sports stadium, watching a game where a slender reptilian man pitched rocks...
A picture-poem experiment: one dream per stanza!
Five short dreams exploring the weight of culture on our animal selves...
Earth scientists ignore the natives' tales of abyssal monsters, but the locals easily track a Terran sub...
I find the cure for an alien plague, then visit its homeworld, to find it has a curious variant...
CAUTION: SEX CUSTOMS OF THE NEWT PEOPLE! MY COUSIN'S GAY WEDDING!
I careen from a shamanic laboratory
to a shattered ring round an alien world
to (gasp) an honest politican!...
I'm Doctor Who, being chased by an air-surfer who demands we give up a reserved, proud man named...
CAUTION: MILD NUDITY
Chased by purple squid from Jupiter, I seek refuge with a guru the Goddess recommends for me...
Jupiter's massive presence tugs its moons to geologic life. Just being exerts a power and a pull...
I'm on the border of human territory. Beyond is the land of the unnerving
Telepaths, each one different but every one creepy...
While living with violent Kay, I dream I meet a cute, gentle moth-girl.
But we must undergo ten trials. Mustn't we? Mustn't we?
CAUTION: RELATIONSHIP TROUBLES, BOTH GAY AND STRAIGHT
The Lone Star Planet--worldwide Texas--is weirdly empty. No kids at all! Instead, teens
ping into existence pre-formed. An alternate Earth with no concept of change?
Tour a rugged, scenic moon with air and water in deep canyons sheltering a dozen intelligent species
CAUTION: ANARCHISM, NUDITY, SCIENCE
1987/8/15, 1990/3/31 & 6/10, 1993/8/10, four dreams prompting Planetocopia
I dreamed I took a globe off its stand, drilled new poles, and put it back on tilted, so that
most continents are greener; Tokyo, Alaska and Tierra del Fuego are now all tropical...
Over a decade later, dreams forgotten, I start what I think is a nondream art project, by tilting...
In a city crawling across a marshy world, I find a detonating bomb frozen in a time-ball.
Why not detonate it somewhere harmless, why carry this around?
I'm a cat person, grooming. But not MY fur--it's a woolly mass of timelines!
We cats travel time, smoothing out snarls... Then I wake, go to a party, and...
Golfing in the basement with Giselle! But her ball goes through a Stargate
to land on a world where the water hazards are hazards...
Our band's touring Titan. Road trip blues: diners, feuds, romance... jealousy.
Have I been overlooking the right girl? For the last billion miles?
Clarence the sappy angel from It's A Wonderful Life and Milton's Lucifer land on Earth, offering treaties.
Who to sign with? Clarence thinks we're fine as is, but the Devil's a tinkerer, learning from failures. Failures
like me and my girlfriend Titania, the first android with a full palette of feelings. Like the feeling she's fake...
A hero has solved all Earth's problems. Now what? A trucker friend invites him on a road trip to Mars...
Climbing a mountain on Mars, I reach a hall where I'm transformed into a cryophilic being.
There I feast on methane soup with the heroic Martian dead...
Cities are fun when you're a bird--all those updrafts and perches and nests with great views...
Changelings invade our orbital station, selling drugs, kidnapping teachers--but Constable
Odo can handle that. What's weird are the beans pouring out of that kid's tuba...
Turn a globe upside down. All Earth's winds and currents reverse;
wet coasts turn dry, dry turn wet; ice caps shift, sea levels change...
A maneless lion-boy wins his people's respect. While training, he sees weird trespassers
who seem to be from someone else's dream... and ten years later, he finds that dreamer.
I'm an exchange student at the Solar System's best university for
the magic arts; my classmates are methane-breathing foxtaurs...
I'm on an alien world inside the minds of two women and a child struggling with moral choices in a civil war...
CAUTION: DEATH, LOSS
My uncle is Jupiter. Not the god, the planet. All my relatives are planets. So am I. And I'm invaded...
Disguised as a literary troll, I spy on the Neo-Nazis, but my disguise
can't last much longer: I ate a magical herb, and I'm growing...
Animal teachers, mostly equine, drag me (as I scream NO!) beyond plain dreamwork into shamanism...
Chapter 1: The Deer Party: by Wayan; 6 illus.
Chapter 2: Ariane's Honeymoon: by Wayan; 8K
Chapter 3: The Everest Marathon: by Wayan; 1 illus.
Chapter 4: Who'll Be My Love?: by Wayan; 100K, 4 illus.
Chapter 5: Dreamrider: by Wayan; 7K, a nondream interlude
Chapter 6: Half Shaman, Half Statesman: by Wayan; 170K, 4 illus.
Chapter 7: Eight To A Horn: by Wayan; 2 illus.
Chapter 8: Black Magic: by Wayan, 7 illus.
Chapter 9: Misfits On Mars: by Wayan; 300K, 7 illus.
I wander a valley where unicorns love cyborgs but fear giant ants, who love unicorns but
fear cyborgs, who love ants but fear unicorns! And while the Three Tribes squabble, cave-monsters
sculpt them all. I set up peace talks between these four aspects of my tetrahedral soul...
CAUTION: SWEARING, DRUNK LIONS, CYBORG SURGERY, AND GOGGLE-BARFING
Tour Venus as it will be in 1000 years, after terraforming: paradise for dozens of intelligent species!
We're air pirates running a music shop, till our biplanes are hijacked by cat angels! Furious, we set out...
Vesta are animal guardians of the land. This isn't a portrait of a vesta, but how I see when I AM one...
Kingsford meets a girl who burns herself as a protest. K flips out! Rants instead of helps...
CAUTION: RANT MIDWAY YOU'RE BETTER OFF SKIPPING
A job as the only priest on an island colony sounded perfect, only I’m the wrong religion...
CAUTION: DOGMATISTS AND DEAD BIRDS TALKING
I'm in Middle Earth, interviewing dwarves and hobbits
who've experienced a phenomenon called Summoning...
War, monsters, plague and bombs are just thrills spicing up
this city rising from a tropical sea on an alien world...
I dream I find a few 'extinct' watercats--in a slum! They talk. They say I'm one of them,
brainwashed to think I'm human. I wake, go to a dinner, and hear a tale of... watercats!
I'm an intelligent rabbit in an alphamale's harem, organizing a feminist movement...
On a gene-engineered world, the Prime Minister tries to assassinate
the Bug Princess by tricking a well-meaning smartlawn...
I'm on a world inhabited by metamorphosing hobbits, when
H.G. Wells shows up seeking a magic ring Earth needs...
For flirting in the astral cafeteria, we all get sentenced to group therapy--
till I catch the lie in my life. What lie? Read the title...
A cowgirl is driving us in circles round the dusty parking lot, fleeing the air-sharks... or is she?
I dreamt I could clearly see the sun's corona, like a lion-mane of fire. But the
corona dwindled; then the very sun dimmed, shrank, and went out. I thought...
CAUTION: POLITICAL?
I'm stuck on a runaway bus. So we decide to picture the axle falling off, and
it obeys! But the bus zooms on, carried by a horde of little animals...
CAUTION: ESP SKEPTICS WILL LOATHE THE AFTERWORD (true story, though)
An empire of creatures asexual most of the year has affected its human neighbors--or bred a new type.
In a class, asked to share a bit about myself, I lie. Why? Not only are people like me
illegal, my particular story would be seen as impossible...
I'm lucid but paralyzed. A weird child spies on me; is she controlling me?
Then I'm having sex--but if I come, I'll wake up! Then some thugs jump me.
I make sure they won't bother me again, but... is everyone in this dream out to distract me?
CAUTION: SEX, MUGGER-STOMPING
I'm stranded on an alternate Earth under strict rationing--of wishes!
But you need to wish a few times a year to keep the system greased...
CAUTION: INSULTS BOTH CAPITALISM AND ASCETICISM
A witch in the future invents a new way to terraform small dense moons--and it'd work!...
A dream of human and wolf people intermarrying provokes both a sculpture and a more wolfish attitude...
I visit Earth during an all-female era. I'm a woman, can pass for local--so why do I lie to fit in?
CAUTION: SEXIST SLUR
Great towers rise into a fog zone--or is it another world with other rules? And how to draw both levels?
The bird that carries the world through space, whose eye is the sun...
A world-mind I never really liked dies generously, helping others; so I make my peace with it...
I'm in a college class studying a bizarre alternate Earth where
anarchist co-ops never evolved and (of all things) money rules all...
CAUTION: SCORNS CAPITALISM
Mark Twain dreams we're cells inside God, and writes of Huck Finn among the microbes.
A century later, unaware of Twain's dreams, Robert Moss...
An alternate Titan, Titan as it should have been, with ethane seas full of life...
I dream of three colonies in the deep future. We outlived the universe itself, but can we survive each other?
CAUTION: WAR, GENOCIDE, POLITICAL ALLEGORY
DAY: a toxic potluck. Not the first! But this time I say no...
DREAM: I'm a scent-oriented alien, tossing stinkbombs back...
My cat dissolves in the shower. I follow her to a telepathic world. I want to stay, but can I?...