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1978. Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions

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• Somerset Dreams and Other Fictions [top]
  First published in 1978 by Hutchinson & Co. and reprinted in 1979 by The Science Fiction Book Club, hardcover, 178 pages

Contains the stories: Somerset Dreams; The Encounter; Planet Story; Mrs Bagley Goes to Mars; Symbiosis; Ladies and Gentlemen, This is Your Crisis; The Hounds; State of Grace.The title story in the collection describes an anaesthesiologist -who administers 'death in small doses, temporary death'-who is drawn back to her hometown, where a professor and his students are conducting dream research. When the professor loses control of the experiment, the world takes on nightmarish dimensions

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