To Build a Dream
Greg Hickey
ASIN : B0CGQ6DQSY
Publication date : October 25, 2023
Language : English
File size : 2058 KB
Description
Timothy Smit is sick. He’s stuck in middle management at a second-rate news aggregator when an intense coughing fit causes him to pass out at his desk. Tim wakes up in the ICU to a diagnosis of a rare and aggressive form of lung cancer and the news that he likely has no more than a few months left to live.
Confined to a hospital bed with his health deteriorating, Tim finds himself immersed in a series of vivid dreams. As he becomes increasingly captivated by this enigmatic fantasy world, he realizes his dreams just might be keeping him alive.
But can Tim discover a real-life worth living before it’s too late?
To Build a Dream is a mesmerizing psychological sci-fi novel that blurs the line between dreams and reality. If you like lone heroes fighting to survive, visionary quests, and a race against time, then you’ll love Greg Hickey’s enthralling dream world.
Review: To Build a Dream
This book arrived and from the moment I clicked open the pdf, the story did not disappoint! The storyline has an enriching quality and made me think about life, and dream states and appreciate the complexity of the human body.
In truth, I recall vividly dreaming when I was a child but seldom do I recall my dreams now. Yet, I'm informed that people often dream four to five times a night with a mental picture of what they want to achieve.
Throughout this read, readers have a chance to dissect the scenes and symbols in Tim's dreams which are filled with sensory-based content.
From the very first chapters of To Build a Dream, I was drawn in by the thought that a dream state like drowning or suffocating may symbolize being powerless or overwhelmed by the amount of decisions and choices one must make. Then I thought about Tim wearing a diaper and how that could symbolize eliciting some care from others.
The story examines the interplay of perception and illusion. It scrutinizes episodic memory and specialty care delivery with exceptional imaging. It looks at the role and function of family, the importance of instilling hope, and is a wonderful reminder that combination treatments can assist many times in cancer survival.
About the Author
Greg Hickey wrote his first novel, Our Dried Voices while spending a year in Sundsvall, Sweden, and Cape Town, South Africa, playing and coaching for local baseball teams. That novel was published in 2014 and was a finalist for Foreword Reviews' INDIES Science Fiction Book of the Year Award. Today, he still loves sharing stories while staying busy with the other facets of his life. He is a forensic scientist by day and an endurance athlete and author by nights, lunches, weekends, and any other spare moments. After his post-college travels, he once again lives in his hometown of Chicago with his wife and daughter.
You can read my review of his 2020 book Parabellum here.