description: “They gave me dreams of euphoria, life without pain, in exchange for the body I no longer needed. No one ever wakes from the pod dreams. No one ever wanted to. Except, I did.”Alex rouses to near darkness. Glass encloses him on all sides. He is drowning in salty fluid, thrashing for life. Except his lungs don’t burn for air. His mind doesn’t fade away. When Alex looks down, he finds the mechanical umbilical cord extending out of his navel.The Institute offers many services. To their Dreamers, a release from reality, in exchange for a small rent. Blood. Bone marrow. Stems cells. Organ biopsies. Thousands of desolate souls sleep in their pods, every thought, each emotion, manipulated. Improved. The human experience is manufactured on a large scale.Alex is the only man to wake, to get out. His body is damaged, and he cannot trust his own mind, especially not what it shows him.Alex chooses life. He quits the Institute, but the beautiful world outside their clinical walls is far more brutal. This small moon colony is a thing of civil unrest. Violent riots. Military police arrests in the night. The war, a distant thing, that is coming home. The world is ripping itself apart, but Alex is just trying to escape the demons in his head, to find some human connection. He forgets to avoid the demons in the street—the violence, pain, and chaos. Never again does Alex want to be a man so broken, he gives up on life, to choose to sleep in the watery grave of a pod. Despite how Alex runs, the horrifying nature of his reality pursues him. I Dream in Colour is a story of loneliness, and the dark places our minds can go. It is filled with haunting visuals, of a strangely beautiful alien world, against dark, dystopian themes. A colony lost in space and disconnected from Earth. Mostly, this science-fiction thriller is about the human capacity to hold onto hope—and to lose it.Pre-order NowRelease date: 7th November 2020
language: English
title: I Dream in Color