Dreams of the Sleepers

Dreams of the Sleepers is a K/S slash Star Trek: TOS 142-page novel by Alexis Fegan Black. It was a 1985 Surak Award nominee for best long story and for the 1988 Federation Class Excellence Award. 
The artwork is by Vel Jaeger. The zine also contains six poems by Natasha Solten, Diane Tessman, and Alexis Fegan Black.
"My Soul to Sleep" is the gen version sent to Pocket Books. See more here.
It is a time travel story in which Kirk and Spock visit Earth's 1960 on a research mission that goes awry, so that they fall into the hands of the U.S. government. 
In a 2011 interview, the author called it her favorite novel. See Interview with Della Van Hise (Slash Alexis Fagen Black) 
==Summaries==
Publisher's summary: ".... what could occur should James Kirk and Spock be called on to bring the Enterprise into Earth's past. It begins as a mission of historical research into Old Earth's development of psychotronic weapons during the 1960's. But the mission quickly goes awry, leaving K & S at the mercy of the U.S. Government -- where they learn that they are not the first "aliens" to "visit" this world. Nor are they the first to experience the fate of life suspension -- a process which creates a prison with no bars, and perhaps a world which only the mind's eye can perceive."
Summary from Media Monitor: "Arguably the most influential K/S zine ever written... Kirk and Spock travel back in time to Earth's 1960's where they are captured by a hostile government and placed in cryonic suspension. Their bodies are trapped, but their astral selves live on."
Summary from Gilda F: "Sent on a mission into the past, Kirk and Spock are captured by the very institution they were sent to investigate, a company which uses ʻsleepersʼ as psychotronic weapons."
==Part of a Series==
* Dreams of the Sleepers
* The Fifth Hour of Night
* Daybreak
* A Collection of Dreams
==Previous Incarnation==
This story, originally titled "My Soul to Sleep," was originally sent in the form of a professional manuscript to Pocket Books for publishing consideration in 1985. It 1986, Van Hise offered this in manuscript form, "signed by the author," for sale in Datazine #44. 
A fan in 1999 wrote: 
Image:mysoultokeep.jpg|front cover of "My Soul to Sleep"
Image:mysoul1.jpg|inside page of "My Soul to Sleep"
Image:mysoul2.jpg|inside page of "My Soul to Sleep"
Image:mysoul3.jpg|inside page of "My Soul to Sleep"
==Related Works==
All That We See or Seem by Christopher Randolph and Diane Tessman, a story in Starry Seas, Earthly Planes, is a "sort-of-tie-in story for Dreams of the Sleepers, though either can be read separately and stands on its own.
==What's It All About?: 1985==
From the editorial: 
==What's It All About?: ~2006==
From the author at her sales website: 
==What's It All About?: 2011==
From the interview: Interview with Della Van Hise (Slash Alexis Fagen Black):
==A Mention of the Sequel, and Too Many LoCs==
In 1985, the author thanks fans: 
==Contents==
* Dreams of the Sleepers
* untitled poem by Natasha Solten (74)
* untitled poem by Diane Tessman (85)
* Cold Dream, poem by Natasha Solten (97)
* Some Kind of Hero, poem by Natasha Solten (128)
* Wayward Sons, poem by Diane Tessman (136)
* Of Butterflies... and Men, poem by Alexis Fegan Black (142) (It has the editor's note: "This poem is part of the novel. Please do not read it until you have completed the story itself. Thanks...")
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Category:Star Trek TOS Slash Zines
Category:1985 Zines