The Waking Dream Or The Tower of the Vessels

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION: When hope of a cure is unearthed after three hundred years, the weathered Captain Ford Taylor and young Corporal James Bell must journey through an American Inland long overtaken by the roaming corpses of the savage undead, each to discover for themselves the meaning of human dignity in the face of withered souls deemed unworthy and to learn that the true enemy lies within. After encountering a young man and woman whose lives have been changed forever by the cruel virus, the four go on together toward a facility that might house both the secrets of humanity's fall and the hope for its future. More than just the living dead, the four must grapple with the consequences of war, the fear of "the Other" and the choice to fight hate with love, doubt with compassion. Theirs is a journey from life to death to what lies between in the deserts of the Waking Dream. AUTHOR J.D. TIPPEY'S OWN DESCRIPTION: If this story has truly passed from the mind to the page in the way that I first saw it, then it is a child of Boulle's raw and beautiful wilderness, Bradbury's celebration of the human spirit, and Tolkien's lyrical myth. It is a story that lies between the realms of darkness and light and sees the humanity that, born into one, often reaches for the other, to their own salvation or destruction.