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Everything You Dream Is Real
by Lisa de Nikolits
Genre: Speculative Fantasy Fiction, Romance

From the award-winning “Queen of Canadian Speculative Fiction” comes a futuristic, multigenerational love story and a gripping edge-of-your-seat thriller. Filled with a cast of loveable, unforgettable, and entirely unique characters, the novel is a fabulous, adventure-filled sequel to highly-acclaimed The Rage Room – or read it as a standalone. Mad Max: Fury Road meets a futuristic True Romance in a highly original and imaginative novel.

Eleven years after a world war destroyed the consumer-driven, plastic-based existence of 2055, a new order of players jostles for power. Streaky electricity, ravaging drought, a scarcity of food and deadly Monarch butterflies makes for an increasingly desperate situation. Monarch pollen, called butt dust, is both an anesthetic and an addictive drug.

The sequel pits the genetically engineered OctoOne (part octopus, part woman) and her army against The Fountain of Youth compound ruled by an unstable plastic surgeon known as Alpha Plus and his army of mechanical cutting machines. Sharps, protagonist of The Rage Room, returns after a bizarre series of encounters inside the Mainframe, and is reunited with his former cohorts. His mother reinvents herself and eventually emerges as the new leader of a dreamy/nightmarish world.

A twist is that the drought-ridden world, thought by OctoOne to be all-encompassing, is the anomaly. The worlds collide when Mother and Sharps’ children are kidnapped by Alpha Plus and taken to The Fountain of Youth compound, an imaginative take on Hotel California where you can check in anytime, but you can never leave.

The Fountain of Youth compound is a dream come true, until it isn’t. There’s flowing water and beautiful people and beautiful clothes and an incongruous convent where children wear smart uniforms and are tutored by nuns. Lovely, until you discover that the plastic surgeon is mad, and all his creations are duplicate Barbie Dolls, and all his money and power is based on a subterranean sex show streaming from the Mainframe. Alpha Plus’s hitman is a bizarre psychopath aptly named Jinx, an amalgam of killers from across time and a reminder of the perils of time travel.

The novel comes to an epic climax at Carnival and world order is restored. There are happy-ever-afters and a few casualties of war.
A hilarious and at the same time poignant novel, Everything You Dream is Real is filled with delightful puns and ironies, and there is the sobering realization that obsession with appearances, the soul-draining sex-trade, and the thirst for power hold sway in our own world every bit as much as in this dystopian world.

The manuscript leaves you cheering and wishing that everything you dream really would be real.



Reviews:

Witty and elegant, dorky and weird: Everything You Dream Is Real is a fantastically riveting book, loaded with strange delights, scary caprices and an infinity of comic turns and twists. 
- Lynn Crosbie, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night and Chicken.

Lisa de Nikolits’ Everything You Dream Is Real is aptly named: this novel reads like a delirious hallucination, but one with unmistakable immediacy. Come for the sci-fi and action-adventure; stay for the love story that lurks just below the surface. - Mark Sampson, author of All the Animals on Earth, The Slip, and Sad Peninsula

In this wonderfully weird sequel to The Rage Room, an ensemble cast of quirky characters create havoc inside the head of time travelling anti-hero Sharps. High energy, sexy and funny, Everything You Dream Is Read combines futuristic adventures with irreverent romance to create an entertaining, high-energy read. – Terri Favro, The Sisters Sputnik.

This is one rollicking ride! In her stunning follow up to The Rage Room, Lisa de Nikolits punches the gas right from the starting line and never stops, taking us through a mind-bending series of twists and turns that will leave you breathless. – Richard Ehisen, The Open Mic.

Everything You Dream is Real encompasses a whirling world. This is kaleidoscopic, cerebral and turbulent storytelling, interspersed with wry, dry humour and incorporating time travel-unravel, with diverse transitioning, transfixing situations and beguiling entrapments … deceptions and pell-mell displacements, driven by decidedly volatile, fickle and dodgy doctrines, zig-zag plunges and frantic fragmentation. There is a sly warring against any remaining individual intactness with flickers and flashes of insightfulness, alongside dizzying addictions, driving exhilaration and desperation … and some tender healing within hellishness. We observe corrupt and dodgy dynamics galore … people being modified and “oddified”! Amidst pulverizing toxic policies of authoritarianism … a venomous and in large part, squalid and crushing lifestyle, triggering outbreaks of valiant stances and plucky stalwart unity. Some powerful and enduring relationships occur, alongside others less stable and made frail with stirrings of disdain, baldly brazen behaviour and outlandish craziness of “sexploitations” … purely ravaged and depraved copulations, a tightly controlled community, wheeling amidst uncertainty and unpredictability, degrading manipulation and subjugation, wherein schemes of mutiny are whispered and hatched against numbing political pulverizing … grotesque and blatant distortion and fear-fueled by seamy and sordid surveillance. These are fraught times, driven by power, greed and exploitation, with shrewd and lewd undercurrents, yet outwardly showcased to be a community thriving and free. This juggling of ongoing egotism and immense uncertainty is however threaded through with a somewhat fragile, yet sustained undercurrent careering towards hope of escape … of liberation and cohesion … and inclusion … to forging a complete community. – Shirley McDaniel, Artist, Art Explorations

Lisa de Nikolits’s uniquely subversive, quirky approach to writing about complex topics is entertainment at its finest. A zany excursion with vivid characters, Everything You Dream Is Real manages to balance absurdity with profound insight, leaving me with much to contemplate even as I’m still laughing. Darcia Helle, Quiet Fury Books

What I love about reading Lisa’s books is that every time I start a new one I never know what I’m going to get! Each new book is a totally different, quirky, fun, wild ride and I love that. The hilarity mixed with the darkness makes for such a weird, delicious combination! The middle of the book is all madness and mayhem, then it turns into - ah ha! Seriously, there is not a dull moment! The whole book is wild and crazy! - Wendy Barrows, Wall-wall books

A strange story that is oddly satisfying and thoroughly entertaining. There were times that I felt a bit lost because I am not used to this genre. I liked that there were many twists, it helped with the suspense. My favorite part of the book was the author's writing style. It felt like your best friend was telling you a story in a uniquely funny way. - Ioanna Kormouli, Nana's Book Reviews

Anything can happen, you just have to Dream it. Everything You Dream Is Real is a story that will hook you with butterfly wings but with these dreams, watch where you're going. You could wake to a whole other world. – Elaine Sapp, Elaine Loves to Read.

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