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In the near-future SF novel
Tower of Dreams, Blaine Ramsey is an Image digger. He can tap the collective unconscious of a people in his dreams, uncovering "Images"--potent archetypes--for the international advertising industry to exploit. Because he is part-Arab, Blaine works and lives in a Middle Eastern village, where he dreams of a beautiful woman's violent fate. As the nightmare recurs, Blaine discovers, against all the laws of neuropsychology and reason, that his dream woman, an Image, is real--a famous Egyptian actress called Aida. He travels to restless, earthquake-shaken Cairo, seeking to escape the nightmare by resolving the mystery, only to find he may be trapped in a disaster more terrible than anything even an Image digger can imagine.
--Cynthia Ward
From Library Journal
American Blaine Ramsey works as a dream-digger, discovering cultural icons for use in corporate advertising. When a powerful image of an exotic Egyptian woman captures not only his sleeping but also his waking hours, Ramsey pursues his vision deep into the heart of a dying 21st-century Cairo. Nasir's (Quasar, Spectra, 1995) latest novel combines the heady surrealism of his hero's dreamquest with the stark fatalism of his future version of the Middle East. Suitable for most sf collections.
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