For Blaine is an Image digger, one of an elite few blessed with the power to “dream” authentic images from the deep unconscious of foreign lands that are turned into alluring, computer-animated packages used by advertisers to sell their products.īut in a dusty Middle Eastern villa, something goes terribly wrong. And he does it all in the name of American capitalism. He drinks in the culture with his mind, body, and soul. He travels to foreign countries and lives like a native. That sent me on the hunt for his earlier novels, and over the last six months I’ve managed to track down most of them - including the highly regarded Tower of Dreams, which Jack Dann called “A powerful hallucinatory nightmare obsession from a writer who loves words and can turn them into the vital stuff of experience.”īlaine Ramsey has an unusual occupation. Tunnel Out of Death, as I noted at the time, had “one of the most original plot synopses I’ve read in the last year.” Earlier this year, I was delighted to write a new New Treasures piece on the latest novel by Jamil Nasir.
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