DREAM BABY. New York: Tor, [1989]. Octavo, boards. First edition. The author's second novel, an expansion of a novella originally published in Jack and Jeanne Dann’s 1987 anthology IN THE FIELD OF FIRE. "Mary Damico joins the Army, becomes a nurse, and gets herself shipped to Vietnam where she suffers precognitive dreams about the deaths of soldiers she’s never met. Before long she’s snapped up by John W. Bucannon, a silky CIA psychologist for whom Mary and his 300 other 'talents' are mere subjects in an insane study of combat-induced ESP … The best Vietnam novel since Tim O’Brien’s GOING AFTER CACCIATO (Delacorte Press, 1978). Only Francis Ford Coppola’s 1979 film APOCALYPSE NOW has so powerfully captured the metaphysical, surreal horror of this war--and McAllister does it with more substance and less pretense." - Michael A. Morrison, Necrofile: The Review of Horror Fiction #3 (1992), p. 25. “McAllister’s first novel is a stunning tour de force.” - Publisher’s Weekly. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-728. A fine copy in fine dust jacket. (#3499).
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