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ACE FANTASY • 0-441-02905-1 • ($3.75 CANADA) • $2*5TJ.S STEVEN BOYETT R. Author of ARIEL I "BOYETTHASA I SUPERIOR STORY HERE! -PIERS ANTHONY Stranger worlds arepossible than we can everdreamof. v papers^5 Country :u> T i>vr -V IraUs Idono 1 he dogs emerged into the clearing, racing toward us, and then they were on us. There were two of them, white, big, and fast. Fighting a dog is no big deal. The fact is that one swift, well-aimed kick ought to end your dog problem real fast. One swift, well-aimed kick almost cost me my leg. I didn’t see the spiked collar it wore, and I sliced open my left leg at midshin. The dog yelped as its ribs broke. It grunted as the air was forced from its lungs, and then it breathed no more. I looked at Truck and Doc. The other dog lay several yards in front of them, its head a darkened mess. My I hurried to Doc. leg gave out as I reached him. There was a lot of blood. It flowed from the four- inch-wide wounds in Doc’s chest, darkening matted fur. We stared at Doc’s body for a long time. Finally Truck looked at me. “No dream this me,” she signed, trilling softly. Her eyes narrowed and she stood. “Hate dreams me! Understand you?” “No, Truck. Understand no.” I She looked at Doc’s body, at the bodies of our two opponents, then at the two moons in the sky. Truck looked at me. “Understand you no,” she signed, and turned away. Ace Fantasy Books by Steven R. Boyett ARIEL THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP STEVEN R. BOYETT A ACE FANTASY BOOKS NEW YORK This book is an Ace Fantasy original edition, and has never been previously published. THE ARCHITECT OF SLEEP An Ace Fantasy Book/published by arrangement with the author PRINTING HISTORY Ace Fantasy edition/July 1986 All rights reserved. © Copyright 1986 by Steven R. Boyett. Cover art by Jim Gurney. This book may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by mimeographror any other means, without permission. For information address: The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. ISBN: 0-441-02905-1 Ace Fantasy Books are published by The Berkley Publishing Group, 200 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10016. HUNTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA — This one's for Adrienne for friendship and long talks. It's also for Kerry And the memory of Truck Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from KahJe/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/architectofsleepOOboye Acknowledgments Despite the enormous complexity and person-hours in- volved in the making of a motion picture, when all is said and done —it is the director who receives the lion's share of may the credit or, as the case be, of the blame. But a director is not the only person involved in the production of a—motion picture, and at the end of the film the credits roll and they ain't called "credits" for nothing Therefore I, as director of this book, am rolling credits at the begin- ning: Ken Mitchroney for visualization, Beth Mitchroney for llama-play,- Doyle Pope for miscellaneous verisimilitude,- Lisa Pianka, Larry Leker, and Nancy Lambert for cleaning and polishing, History of Science Professor Robert Hatch for conversations, extrapolations, and showing where to look for right answers, Stephen Jay Gould, Gene Bylinsky, and Carl Sagan for their lucid books on evolutionary theory and speculative evolution, Eugene Linden and Herbert Terrace for their books on communication with apes via Ameslan,- Diane Duane for three-body problems, the Florida Speleo- logical Society for anecdotes and information, and espe- cially: David Gerrold, for many kindnesses, Melissa Ann Singer, for editorial virtuosity, and — Jessie Horsting, for How Things Work and Why. Lastly should like to thank the coffee-plying staff of 1 Coco's in Northridge, California, without whose caffeine pushing could not have survived marly a hyperkinetic eve- I ning Interpolated into the manuscript are four brief, slightly altered essays wrote regarding the music of (in order of I appearance) Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield, Brian Eno, and Peter Gabriel, and should like to acknowledge their I wonderful music for the imagery it has provided. —SB—
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