The Dream
by Dana Enache
Why we picked it
A strong pick for readers who like future-set stories with powers, moral choices, and shifting loyalties. It blends personal loss with a larger struggle over what humanity is becoming.
About this book
In Dana Enache’s science fiction and fantasy novel, humanity has split into new kinds of people. Some can steal energy through touch, while others recover quickly and cannot be harmed by deadly illness. Jack, a man living on the streets after losing his family, agrees to join unlawful scientific testing in the hope of changing his fate. Instead, he opens his eyes 160 years later inside a deserted facility, changed in ways he never expected.
Elsewhere, Elena is building a life as a single mother and hopes to adopt Andrew, a fourteen-year-old boy from the Institute of MET children. Elena and her biological children are not MET, but Andrew’s life becomes far more dangerous when Joshua begins watching him closely. Born with both MET powers, Joshua sees himself as the rightful ruler of humanity’s next stage. Andrew must decide whether to be drawn into Joshua’s hunger for control or hold on to who he is.
The vibe
Post-human divideSecret experimentsFound familyPower and controlDystopian stakes
Is it for me?
Details
- Author
- Dana Enache
- Genre
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Published
- May 19, 2022
- Publisher
- Independently published
- Pages
- 252
- Reading time
- About 5 hours
- ISBN
- 9798264297779
