Life and Other Dreams: a Sci-Fi and Psychological Thriller!

I am excited to share a book that’s a bit “out of this world”. Get ready for “…action, adventure, romance and cerebral hi-jinks.” I enjoyed reading a story that was exciting and made me think, so please enjoy getting to know about this book and the other author, and my five-star review.

Life and Other Dreams

Rick lives here on Earth now, with Cath. His life is boring, writing adverts for cat food and exotic holidays. When he’s asleep, he dreams vividly.

In his dreams, he lives as Dan, spending his time with his wife Vanessa. They live six-hundred years in the future, half a galaxy away. They’re explorers, searching for valuable minerals on Ecias, an alien paradise.

Dan has no dreams about Rick’s life, he lives on Ecias, loves his life and Vanessa. 
When the two worlds overlap, Rick starts to question what is real. Events in his waking and sleeping lives are mirrored, similar people inhabit both and coincidences mount up. Then disaster strikes in each world at the same time. In his dreams, Dan is accused of a crime he didn’t commit. Meanwhile, after one coincidence too many, Cath thinks that Rick’s dreams are hiding an affair and leaves him.

Is Rick going crazy, or can he be living in two places, in two times, at once? If not, then which one of them is the reality? Will one life carry on when the other is on hold?
Richard Dee’s fast-paced, edgy science fiction -cum- psychological thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page!

Purchase Links:

UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Life-Other-Dreams-Psychological-Thriller-ebook/dp/B07KVHG384

US- https://www.amazon.com/Life-Other-Dreams-Psychological-Thriller-ebook/dp/B07KVHG384

“There seemed little chance that things would ever be right in either of my lives.

Jena’s Review

Life and Other Dreams by Richard Dee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Do you dream vivid dreams after you fall asleep? Do you remember your dreams when you wake up? Warning: you may not want to dream at all after you read Richard Dee’s latest book, Life and Other Dreams. Here is a story that will puzzle and confound you, as well as thrill and entertain you. I had so much fun reading this book, which is really two fascinating stories in one.

Rick lives a quiet, routine life. He works in advertising and his wife is a nurse. No worries, until Rick begins to have trouble falling asleep and his doctor recommends a new drug trial. Rick begins to experience amazing dreams. He is living a life 600 years in the future, on a planet named Ecias.

Ecias is a beautiful planet and Earthlings have recently established an outpost there. Rick, known as “Dan” on Ecias has a wife and they are on Ecias to explore and send back samples to the company that owns this planet. Rick/Dan has exciting adventures that he can recall in great detail after he wakes.

Then his dream life begins to affect his real life, his marriage and his job. Which world is real? “I was in my home with my wife. This was the reality; the only thing was, it felt less real to me than what had just happened on Ecias.”

Both stories of Rick/Dan are fascinating and thrilling. I liked that there is enough detail about the future to make it interesting, yet the tech and science jargon doesn’t overwhelm. I’m not sure if I totally understood his Earth wife’s reactions, but it added to the nonstop action. “There seemed little chance that things would ever be right in either of my lives.

I also read the author’s bio and Richard Dee has had an interesting life, too. Hopefully he sleeps well at night. I recommend this book- something different and enjoyable to read. A sequel coming soon!

Thanks to Rachel’s Random Resources for a review copy. This is my honest review.

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Author Bio

Richard Dee is a native of Brixham in Devon. He left Devon when he was in his teens and settled in Kent. Leaving school at 16 he briefly worked in a supermarket, then went to sea and travelled the world in the Merchant Navy, qualifying as a Master Mariner in 1986. 
Coming ashore to be with his growing family, he used his sea-going knowledge in several jobs, working as a Marine Insurance Surveyor and as Dockmaster at Tilbury, before becoming a Port Control Officer in Sheerness and then at the Thames Barrier in Woolwich.

In 1994 he was head-hunted and offered a job as a Thames Estuary Pilot. In 1999 he transferred to the Thames River Pilots, where he regularly took vessels of all sizes through the Thames Barrier and upriver as far as HMS Belfast and through Tower Bridge. In all, he piloted over 3,500 vessels in a 22-year career with the Port of London Authority.

Richard is married with three adult children and three grandchildren.

His first science-fiction novel Freefall was published in 2013, followed by Ribbonworld in 2015. September 2016 saw the publication of his Steampunk adventure The Rocks of Aserol and of Flash Fiction, a collection of Short Stories. Myra, the prequel to Freefall was published in 2017, along with Andorra Pett and the Oort Cloud Café, a murder mystery set in space and the start of a series featuring Andorra Pett, an amateur detective. Sequels to Ribbonworld and The Rocks of Aserol have been published, together with a second Andorra Pett story, Andorra Pett on Mars. He also contributed a story to the 1066 Turned Upside Down collection. Richard is currently working on prequels, sequels, and new projects. 

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