LEADER 02892nam 22004213 450 001 9910890884303321 005 20250627080332.0 010 $a1-68571-233-9 035 $a(CKB)5860000000547333 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC32154333 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL32154333 035 $a(NjHacI)995860000000547333 035 $a(EXLCZ)995860000000547333 100 $a20250627d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Dream-Slaves 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aEarth, Milky Way :$cPunctum Books,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2024. 215 $a1 online resource (375 pages) 311 08$a1-68571-232-0 327 $a240928dreamslaves-cover-ebook-front -- 240927dreamslaves-print. 330 $aTo fight the gods-you must first become a slave. Our universe is dead. All that's left are memories. But the powers indigenous to the new world are fighting back. Alexander, a handsome immigrant fleeing trouble in his poor native land, doesn't even have a claim to his own name in the magic-rich city of Norio, where they call him Aleixo. But his name may be the least of what the sorcerers of Norio take from him, when a seemingly random invitation to cater-waiter at a party of the wealthy and famous sweeps Aleixo up into a maelstrom of imperial politics and a millennia-long war between humans and gods. The empire of Norio rules the world because of its monopoly on magical high-tech devices called dream-slaves-and now the head of imperial intelligence has proof that Aleixo isn't human at all, but a dream-slave assassin, smuggled into Norio by the empire's enemies. Rescued by a cabal of sorcerers from a foiled attempt to kill him by a renegade sorcerer, Salvador, and his mysterious other-human ally Ydris, Aleixo finds his identity and humanity stripped from him in harrowing psychedelic adventures that transform his memories and bind him to a history of conflict, activating fabulous abilities he never dreamed he had. The world Aleixo lives in isn't what he's always believed it was: the forces that rule his destiny are not just economic class, race, gender, sexuality, body, nationality-they are much more sinister, and much more powerful. The greatest powers have secretly colonized his planet, and made its history strangely similar to our own. Aleixo discovers he may be the last line of defense against the dystopian present and future of Earth. He leads the struggle for emancipation as he grapples with who and what he is: is he human, or just a dream?. 606 $aMagic$vFiction 615 0$aMagic 676 $a813.6 700 $aScott$b Darieck$0707270 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910890884303321 996 $aThe Dream-Slaves$94400853 997 $aUNINA