The Dream Master

Expanded from the novella He Who Shapes (1965).

Zelazny the myth-master, fantasy and SF writer extraordinary, excels himself in this brilliant novel. It is the story of Charles Render, the Shaper, one of the world's handful of neuroparticipant therapists. Render can enter and direct another person's mind. His skills can alter a personality. But the mind is an uncharted and infinite universe, and the Shaper is drawn, unawares, into a fateful vortex which all the arts of the Dream Master cannot avoid.

This is a deeply exciting and inventive novel, rich in intriguing undertones and correspondences with Arthurian and older mythology – in fact, vintage Zelazny.