Tag: The Horseman’s Dream

“The Horseman’s Dream” – A Speculative/Dystopian/Sci-Fi Novel

Circumstances have forced me into launching this novel before it strays from fiction into reality, which, as beta readers will know, has already happened to some extent (fascist government, technopropaganda, floods, corporatocracy, disease, quarantine, pharmaceutical/spiritual/psychological warfare etc.). Lately, we’re all being pushed further down the rabbit hole with Covid-19, Lockdown, QAnon, Epstein, Virtual Reality, Neuralink…

By ajreid22 4th April 2020 0

The Horseman’s Dream: A Tale of Conspiracy, Corruption, Cruelty and Conditioning in Post-Disaster Britain

It’s taken me nearly 20 years to write The Horseman’s Dream: its origins lying somewhere in the ashes of the Twin Towers and the ensuing maelstrom of disinformation.  It’s about something good that still exists in a bad world.  This is the best story I can come up with to frame the notion of a…

By ajreid22 9th August 2018 4

The Horseman’s Dream Update

It’s taken me years of drafts, scraps and rewrites to get to this point.  Since I was (and still am) no scientist, I read psychology books and articles daily during those years for the sole purpose of writing The Horseman’s Dream.  I studied other fields of science, met with psychologists, military veterans and brushed up on my theology, or divinity,…

By ajreid22 8th February 2015 2

The Horseman’s Dream Map

A rough map of the British Isles as they will be in the future, having been decimated by rising sea levels.  It’s based on elevation, but also evacuation points for major cities in the event of such a disaster.  Edinburgh and Glasgow sadly did not survive, but two old Navy warships are anchored where they used to…

By ajreid22 10th December 2014 0