Kara, an aged human shaman and her friend and colleague, Lute, one of the Mac(ro)Otters, begin to teach Ria in dreams. She has the ability to become a shaman and this becomes reality when her dreams lead her into a far different version of Earth, where giant otters exist as comrades and fellow citizens to humans.
I do recommend either version, (but I preferred the original and retained that copy) but be aware that they’re the same book.ĭreamrider’s main character is Ria, a woman who lives in a far more repressive version of our own world. It claimed to be an expanded and improved version, but I didn’t find it so and I wasn’t pleased. I watched for her name for years and was furious when in 1989 a book (Shaman) appeared from a different publisher, with a different cover, and different title – which book I bought thinking that it was a sequel to Dreamrider, only to find that it was the same book. It featured a 10 page Introduction by Gordon Dickson, saying what a wonderful writer Miesel was and how this was only the first of what he expected to be many works of fiction. This was a brilliant shamanistic fantasy set in a number of alternate worlds. In 1982 Ace produced a book entitled DREAMRIDER. However in one way she had been a great disappointment to me as a reader. She is predominantly a non-fiction writer who has produced a number of very valuable works examining the writings of others both in and out of the SF field – and I do recommend most of them. Ms Miesel, born in 1941, holds Master’s degrees in Biochemistry and Medieval History.
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