Halcyon Dreamworlds – Enslaved by the Future of Desire

Halcyon Dreamworlds
300 Pages
ISBN 978197604789

An apocalyptic convergence of human greed and cybernetic intelligence…

Halcyon Dreamworlds visualizes what could happen when the rampant greed of American elites turn a devastating cyber-weapon upon the entire population. Their goal: to strip all material wealth for the benefit of the few, rendering 99% of America’s people into slavery.

Logan Fischer, a childless divorcee, and college-educated journalist has been denied anything resembling a professional career. She works now at a big box store on the tenuous edge of poverty. Like millions of others, Logan is addicted to a virtual online reality, a world which gives her the illusion of a better life.

When her uncle Kevin is found dead and her employer fires her for supposed indecency, Logan is forced into the hunt for Kevin’s killer. She is befriended by mysterious Beatrice who lives in the mental sway of the online world. They do not realize that by becoming lovers they accomplish a key step in the plan of the elites for total financial domination, one of whom is Beatrice’s father.

Not knowing that they are controlled by the party world, it is left to them to perceive what is at stake. They form a small cadre of insurgents, helped by the police detective who investigated Kevin’s unnatural death.

The plot includes escalating battles among ultra-rich factions, the removal of politicians, mysterious deaths inside the virtual world which are equally horrifying in the real world.

Through it all, a cyber-intelligence that calls itself Uncle Kevin battles to help Logan while remaining unseen.

And the robot cries in the end.

Lee Baldwin

About Lee Baldwin (Ashland, Oregon Author)

Lee Baldwin

Lee Baldwin writes speculative fiction and adventure fiction in Ashland, Oregon. He’s got five indie novels out with the popular online publishers: Savage Genesis Book One, Next History, Halcyon Dreamworlds, and an amateur sleuth mystery, Angle of Attack. His new novel, The Hidden Perils of Suicide, is due out in 2020.

Baldwin is a glider pilot and amateur race car driver. From these sports, as well as cycling, windsurfing and rollerblading, Baldwin derives the kinetic action scenes that make his stories fly.

Baldwin is a visual artist and jazz keyboard player. In his artwork since the 1970s, Baldwin conceived a three-dimensional approach to art glass design, invented the painting style known as Hard-Edge Impressionism, and coined the term Repainted Photograph, to describe his digital treatments of California landscapes.