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The Dreamers
James Gunn

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Copyright ┬й 1980 by James Gunn
First e-reads publication 1999
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Author Biography
James Gunn has worked as an editor of paperback reprints, as managing editor of Kansas University.
alumni publications, as director of K.U. public relations, as a professor of English, and now is professor
emeritus of English and director of the Center for the Study of Science Fiction. He won national awards
for his work as an editor and a director of public relations. He was awarded the Byron Caldwell Smith
Award in recognition of literary achievement and the Edward Grier Award for excellence in teaching,
was president of the Science Fiction Writers of America for 1971-72 and president of the Science
Fiction Research Association from 1980-82, was guest of honor at many regional SF conventions,
including SFeracon in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, and Polcon, the Polish National SF convention, in Katowice;
was presented the Pilgrim Award of SFRA in 1976, a special award from the 1976 World SF
Convention for Alternate Worlds; a Science Fiction Achievement Award (Hugo) by the 1983 World SF
Convention for Isaac Asimov: The Foundations of Science Fiction; and the Eaton Award in 1992 for
lifetime achievement; was a K.U. Mellon Fellow in 1981 and 1984; and served from 1978-80 and
1985-present as chairman of the Campbell Award jury to select the best science-fiction novel of the
year. He has lectured in Denmark, China, Iceland, Japan, Poland, Romania, Singapore, Sweden,
Taiwan, Yugoslavia, and the Soviet Union for the U.S. Information Agency.


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 Preface
Sometime in the late 1950s I ran across accounts of what was then called тАЬchemical memory.тАЭ The way
in which memory is transferred to the neurons in the brain for storage was mysterious at that time (and no