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He Who Shapes
| Author: | Roger Zelazny |
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Amazing Stories, 1965 |
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| Book Type: | Novella |
| Genre: | Science-Fiction |
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Synopsis
Nebula Award winning novella.
Charles Render is a shaper, one of a small number of psychotherapists qualified, by his granite will and ultra-stability, to use the extraordinary device that enables him to to participate in, and control, his patients' dreams. But this is a dangerous therapy for the therapist and only his armour-plated integrity protects Render from too deep an involvement in the mental worlds of the damaged people he seeks to help. But then, Eileen Shallot, another therapist who is blind, asks him to help her 'see' by transferring from his mind to hers a world of colour and light. Render agrees but suddenly finds himself obsessed with Eileen and drawn into fantasies which, she controls.
The story originally appeared in Amazing Stories, January 1965 and February 1965. It has been reprinted many times. It can be found in the anthologies:
- Nebula Award Stories 1965, edited by Damon Knight
- The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume III (1981), edited by Arthur C. Clarke and George W. Proctor
- The Best of the Nebulas (1989), edited by Ben Bova
- The Science Fiction Century (1997), edited by David G. Hartwell
The story is included in the collections:
- The Last Defender of Camelot (1980)
- Tor Double #12: He Who Shapes/The Infinity Box (1989), with Kate Wilhelm
- Threshold (2009)
The novella was expanded into the full novel The Dream Master (1976).
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