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Somewhere Only We Know

Dreamrider

By Sandra Miesel  

2 Feb, 2019

Big Hair, Big Guns!

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Sandra Miesel’s 1982 Dreamrider is a standalone science fiction novel. 

Ria Legarde lives in a world shaped by a great disaster in 1985 and the anti-tech backlash that followed. After years of chaos, Earth was unified under the Federation, an oppressive nanny state that subjects its citizens to peace, happiness, and art by people who aren’t white. Worst of all, the mental health authority PSI has sweeping powers to detect, detain, and treat the unhappy, perplexed, and nonconformist. 

Ria is all three, thanks to her bizarre dreams. 

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