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A dream wants waking : a novel / Lydia Kwa.

by Kwa, Lydia, 1959-

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Buckrider Books, 2023.

Animals, Mythical -- Fiction.

Artificial intelligence -- Fiction.

9781989496756 (trade pbk.)

224 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

"In 2219 CE Luoyang, a city patched together after the great cataclysm, the half-human, half-fox spirit Yinhe moves through their most recent incarnation. The city is watched over by No. 1, an artificial intelligence housed in a giant brain created by the scientists of Central Government, which entertains and monitors all the inhabitants of the city, both human and chimerical. But No. 1 is starting to behave erratically and the power of the Spirit Supreme Assembly, with its demand for pure bloodlines, is growing. Yinhe is summoned to the Dream Zone, where the chimerical creatures formed by the scientists are contained to do the most dangerous jobs of the city. There Yinhe is given information that will give them the chance to create great change in the city, to stave off an ancient enemy and, perhaps, to reunite with their soulmate, lost many lives before. Weaving a silken web of Chinese myth, speculative fiction and storytelling Lydia Kwa has brilliantly realized a future where questions of sentience, of personhood and of the truth of dreams wrap around a timeless quest for freedom and for love."--Provided by publisher.

Science fiction.

Fantasy fiction.

Literary fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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