Review: Fantastic Science Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2014
“Sight: The Dream Guild Chronicles – Book Two” by David Bruns is a beautifully written science fiction fantasy novel about discovering new planets, about the ability to dream and the meeting of progressive with ‘primitive’ or ‘ancient’ cultures.Maribel and her family have left planet Sindra behind, a technologically advanced place where people communicated telepathically, have implanted crystals and orbs, which give them some powerful superhuman abilities.Now the family are exploring other planets. The humanoid species on the 26th planet they survey cannot dream, making for fascinating research objects. They live in clans, a natural way that occasionally is reminiscent of the Native Indians, they hunt and have something called Sacred Mothers.The observing family save object Nine (”Jaron” or “Tree”) of section 14 from certain death during a heroic fight with a bear and they nurse him with a blood transfusion, which awakens his ability to dream. Jaron escapes and runs back home and the family’ daughter Sariah goes to live with the native community.Bruns builds this new world beautifully, with wonderful details and amazing imagination. For me the best science fiction has always been about other worlds, their lives and societies, and this one is truly magical. The way that the old copes with the influx of the new is written with sensitivity and thoughtfulness, the prose is beautiful and the characters are fascinating and colourful.This is my kind of science fiction, an imaginative and strong story with a great ending and wonderful humanitarian values.