L. W. Currey, Inc.

O'Leary, Patrick. DOOR NUMBER THREE. New York: Tor, [1995]. Octavo, boards. First edition. Signed by O'Leary on the title page. The author's "studiously equipoisal first novel ... much expands the 1990s American venue of its beginning: a therapist is the inventor of a time machine and brings back knowledge of Earth's grim post-holocaust near future whose main inhabitants seem to be a new race -- possibly mutants generated through intense radioactivity -- who function primarily as dream-eaters, their choicest source of nourishment being humans traded them for complex reasons, via time travel; his patient is an alien, which is, in a sense, another story. The centrality of story itself, not normally at the heart of SF discourse, dominates this tale and its successors ... and strengthens a sense that O'Leary has taken some of the enigmas at the heart of Gene Wolfe's harder fictions to heart." - SFE (online). A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#136735).

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