The Seed by De Angelis, Davide - 2004

London: Creation Books, 2004. Erotic and spell-binding prose streaming through realms of phenomenal danger and vibrant beauty, exhilarating layers of adventure, philosophy and myth enriched by eye-widening metaphysics; science fiction filled with the incandescence of dreams. The Seed is an experience, an event, an epic adventure - the unfolding of a radical new mythology. A sensual, fast-streaming ride charged with unforgettable beauty, violence and the mysterious psyche of altered states. In The Seed, the words of Davide De Angelis scratch-mix into a language that saturates the reader's mind in unique metaphor and imagery. The Seed depicts a strange future where people have lost the ability to dream. But in this new Dark Age, a few have been born with the gift of dreams. With the ripening of adulthood these beings have the capacity to re-ignite the liminal power of dreaming through the telling of stories they bring back from the nightside of reality. The most daring and gifted storyteller, The Dreamweaver, faces a crisis which threatens to destroy the fabric of the new order. His dreams are being invaded by a radiant non-physical sorceress and spellbinder called Talis, infiltrating his mind like a brilliantly conceived virus. In the Earth's death-soaked wilderness he must enter a living hieroglyph carved into the parched terrain. Inside this glyph The Dreamweaver discovers the timeless hallucinogenic zone of The Seed, a trance-scape where he faces the erotic terror of a tribe of alien sirens led by the malevolent ice-beauty, Senida. In The Seed's final twist we realize that The Dreamweaver has yet to find his true destiny, and Talis has yet to deliver her final, devastating blow. "De Angelis' prose is as vital, weird as devious as his image-making. Enthralling!" David Bowie.. First Edition. Paperback. New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.