Dreamfall [Paperback]

Cat, the halfbreed telepath hero ofCatspawandPsion, joins a research team on Refuge, homeworld of his mother's people, the Hydrans. Immediately, he finds trouble when he helps a Hydran woman escape human pursuers.

The decimated Hydran population of Refuge is confined to a bleak homeland, by a huge corporate state, Tau Biotech. Tau also controls Refuge's one unique natural resource, Dreamfall. The tangible residue of cast-off thoughts from beautiful, enigmatic cloud whales, dreamfall forms vast reefs, sacred to the Hydrans, but mere exploitable data to Tau.

Caught between Tau and desperate Hydrans who fight to reclaim their world, Cat must somehow forge the ruins of the past into a means to defeat Tau's brutality to save his people--and himself.

Joan D. Vingewrote the Hugo Award bestsellerThe Snow Queen, sequels including the Hugo finalistThe Summer Queenand the Nebula finalistWorld's End, and the Cat series. She's written a dozen movie adaptations, including the #1 bestsellerThe Return of The JediStorybook. She lives in Madison,Wisconsin.

A science fiction adventure-thriller by Hugo Award-winner Joan D. Vinge. Cat, the popular anti-hero ofPsionandCatspaw, tries to go home to a planet inhabited by Hydrans, the telepathic humanoid aliens from whom he gets his own mind-powers. Love, danger, and controversy all follow him as he tries to mine dreamfall, the physical embodiment of thoughts that accumulate in bizarre, fascinating deposits, like a mineral, but with far greater complexities, on the planet.