The first in a series of authoritative new editions of the works of Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author Roger Zelazny.
"I want you to help me become a Shaper." Her shaded eyes, as vacant as a statue's sought him again.
"Yours is a completely unique situation," he commented. "There has never been a congenitally blind neuro-participant - for obvious reasons. I'd have to consider all the aspects of the situation before I could advise you."
"All right. But my blindness does not mean that I have never seen."
His name is Charles Render, and he is a psychoanalyst, and a mechanic of dreams. A Shaper. In a warm womb of metal, his patients dream their neuroses, while Render, intricately connected to their brains, dreams with them, makes delicate adjustments, and ultimately explains and heals.
Her name is Eileen Shallot, a resident in psychiatry. She wants desperately to become a Shaper, though she has been blind from birth. Together, they will explore the depths of the human mind - and the terrors that lurk therein . . .
