Excelsior Publishing will be
releasing Leonard Seet’s latest novel Sharper
Mind Darker Dreams in November 2020.
From the author of Magnolias in Paradise comes Sharper Mind Darker Dreams, a
tour de force science fiction thriller of a self without a past, a tale of lost
memory and elusive love in a dystopian wasteland. A man loses his memory and
must travel through a bizarre world to find his identity. He navigates among
layers of dreams, synthesizing them into his
reality. Through prose that evokes an eerie atmosphere, Seet blends
neurobiology and AI and twists the meaning of being alive, to create a journey
into human consciousness and psychologically designed reality.
Sharper Mind Darker Dreams is a 150,000-word sci-fi and the first in a
potential series. In prose that evokes an eerie atmosphere, the author blends
neurobiology and AI and twists the meaning of being alive, to create a journey
into human consciousness and psychologically designed reality. As in Tad
Williams’ Otherland, a man loses his
memory and must travel through a bizarre world to find his identity. But like
Douglas Hall in Daniel F. Galouye's Simulacron-3,
the protagonist questions whether his world is real. Instead of roaming through
several layers of simulations, here the man navigates among layers of dreams,
synthesizing them into his world. And
like Joe Chip in Philip K. Dick's Ubik,
he continues to live after having died, but instead of being suspended in
“half-life,” he lives as a “half-man.” Science fiction for readers who enjoy
complex characters and mesmerizing writing as much as intricate plots.
Leonard Seet is the author of the novels Meditation On Space-Time and Magnolias in Paradise. His short fiction
have appeared in Duende Literary Journal,
Quarterly Literary Review Singapore,
and Pilcrow & Dagger. The story
“Black-Naped Oriole in Hokkaido Snow” was a podcast winner at Pilcrow & Daggar and he received
honorable mention in the Writers of the
Future Competition for “Don't Be Afraid of the Black Rain.”
