Pratt jumps into the story head-first, in the midst of Zax nearing the 1,000 th new world his visited via his dream-traveling affliction.

But someone unwelcome is on his tail, and they are after something that Zax cannot spare – the blood running through his veins, the power to travel through worlds… He can take people with him, if they’re unconscious in his arms when he falls asleep. All he has to live by are his wits and the small aides he has picked up along the way – technological advantages from techno-utopias, sedatives to escape dangerous worlds, and stimulants to extend his stay in pleasant ones. Sometimes he wakes up in technological utopias, and other times in the bombed-out ruins of collapsed civilizations. He has no control over his destination and never knows what he will see when he opens his eyes.

What would you do if you woke up and found yourself in a parallel universe under an alien sky? This is the question Zax Delatree must answer every time he closes his eyes.Įvery time Zax Delatree falls asleep, he travels to a new reality. As an added bonus, ff he is touching somebody, that person travels with him. Doors of Sleep is the first installment of The Journals of Zaxony Delatree, which features the eponymous Zaxony (Zax as he’s referred to throughout most of the novel) who travels to different worlds every time he falls asleep or loses consciousness. His 2021 novel, Doors of Sleep, looks to blend some of those genres together. Tim Pratt is an extremely talented, imaginative writer whose fiction spans multiple genres – science fiction, space opera, urban fantasy, superheroes, and even the western genre.

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