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Dream Baby: Two Pages to a Novel
This is often how things happen to writers. We cannibalize what speaks to us; we abandon what does not; what’s in our hearts continues to insist on itself… and pages becomes short stories and short stories become novels when we’re not even looking.
You can’t take a mother who dreamed the death of her son in detail on Guam during WWII and make her “do it again.” As a major ESP theorist has pointed out, that dream came from a mother-child bond, pure psychodynamic need and connection, and can’t be replicated in a lab or controlled for utilitarian purposes other than her psyche’s own needs.
ESP and Psychodynamic Need
McAllister: In the early 80’s I wrote a terrible Robert Ludlum (Bourne Identity) imitation of a novel. In the middle of it, for no good reason—it was a third-person novel—was a two-page first-person, colloquial account by an Army nurse in Vietnam. Why it suddenly surfaced I have no idea; but when I trashed that novel,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], those two pages were the only thing I kept…and they became a novelet…and it generated enough attention that it led to an agent and a publisher, Tor.
Bruce McAllister's novel Dream Baby is the story of an Army nurse in Vietnam who dreams the deaths of her patients before they die,Cheap True Religion Skinny Grand Jury Indictment A, tries to save them, can't, is recruited to a secret camp in the highlands for other soldiers with ESP 'talent,' and in the end is the only one who can save those she has come to love.
Dream Baby Website
Suite 101: Your novel Dream Baby deals with soldiers and army nurses who have paranormal experiences. Those in charge . . . a commanding officer,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], CIA . . . force these individuals to use their “gifts” as weapons. How much of this was based on the stories of the veterans you interviewed?
Suite 101: Dream Baby was written both as a novelet and a novel. Which came first?
Suite 101: It has been two decades since Dream Baby was published. Do you still receive letters from
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The problem with controlling ESP both experimentally, in research, and for utilitarian purposes like the Pentagon’s is that ESP, unlike chemicals in a chemistry experiment, operates by psychodynamic need—that is, affected by psychological factors. The more solid ESP research over the decades has shown that both researchers' and subjects’ attitudes affect the outcomes dramatically.
McAllister: Dream Baby is based on (l) interviews and correspondence with 200 vets of three American wars who had what they felt were ESP experiences that kept them alive both during war and after, and (2) actual contingency plans to end the war—written by a team of Special Forces A-camp captains in the Icebox at Ft. Bragg, for the CIA—that have still not been made public, but which Nixon alludes to in his memoir. John Bucannon’s highlands camp for ESP warriors is purely imaginary. The Pentagon’s only success at harnessing ESP was, I gather,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the remote-viewing project.
In his research for Dream Baby, Bruce McAllister interviewed a large number of vets who claimed to have had episodes of ESP during their time in Viet Nam. McAllister talks with Suite.101 about the inception of Dream Baby (based on the Nebula, Hugo and Locus finalist novelet), theories about ESP, and his new website, now in development, that will feature videos and a forum for veterans to discuss their paranormal experiences.

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