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    Paparazzi of Dreams
    Paparazzi of Dreams
    Paparazzi of Dreams
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    Paparazzi of Dreams

    By Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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    In a world that sells and records dreams, a celebrity will do anything to guard his privacy. But the paparazzi try to steal a celebrity’s dreams anyway. And who do the dreams belong to? The person who dreamed it or the person who recorded it? And what happens if a dream reveals a past crime? Is it a memory? Or is it fiction?

    "'Paparazzi of Dreams' contains some frightening notions about the violations of privacy made possible by advanced technology, and author Kristine Kathryn Rusch does an excellent job of using vivid images and a distinctive narrator to unfold her compelling tale. "--Tangent Online

    International bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch has won two Hugo awards, a World Fantasy Award, and six Asimov’s Readers Choice Awards. Her latest novels are the Retrieval Artist novel Blowback and the mainstream novel Bleed Through. She writes mystery as Kris Nelscott, romance as Kristine Grayson, Kristine Dexter, and Kris DeLake, and of course, sf and fantasy as Kristine Kathryn Rusch. For more information about her work, please go to kristinekathrynrusch.com.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateJun 6, 2010
    ISBN9781452370422
    Paparazzi of Dreams
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    Kristine Kathryn Rusch

    USA Today bestselling author Kristine Kathryn Rusch writes in almost every genre. Generally, she uses her real name (Rusch) for most of her writing. Under that name, she publishes bestselling science fiction and fantasy, award-winning mysteries, acclaimed mainstream fiction, controversial nonfiction, and the occasional romance. Her novels have made bestseller lists around the world and her short fiction has appeared in eighteen best of the year collections. She has won more than twenty-five awards for her fiction, including the Hugo, Le Prix Imaginales, the Asimov’s Readers Choice award, and the Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine Readers Choice Award. Publications from The Chicago Tribune to Booklist have included her Kris Nelscott mystery novels in their top-ten-best mystery novels of the year. The Nelscott books have received nominations for almost every award in the mystery field, including the best novel Edgar Award, and the Shamus Award. She writes goofy romance novels as award-winner Kristine Grayson, romantic suspense as Kristine Dexter, and futuristic sf as Kris DeLake.  She also edits. Beginning with work at the innovative publishing company, Pulphouse, followed by her award-winning tenure at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, she took fifteen years off before returning to editing with the original anthology series Fiction River, published by WMG Publishing. She acts as series editor with her husband, writer Dean Wesley Smith, and edits at least two anthologies in the series per year on her own. To keep up with everything she does, go to kriswrites.com and sign up for her newsletter. To track her many pen names and series, see their individual websites (krisnelscott.com, kristinegrayson.com, krisdelake.com, retrievalartist.com, divingintothewreck.com). She lives and occasionally sleeps in Oregon.

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      Paparazzi of Dreams - Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      Paparazzi of Dreams

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

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      Paparazzi of Dreams

      Copyright © 2013 by Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      First published in Analog SF Magazine, November, 2004.

      Published by WMG Publishing

      Cover and Layout copyright © 2013 by WMG Publishing

      Cover design by Allyson Longueira/WMG Publishing

      Cover art copyright © Nikhil Gangavane/Dreamstime

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      This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. All rights reserved. This is a work of fiction. All characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission.

      Paparazzi of Dreams

      Kristine Kathryn Rusch

      I don’t get it, she says, adjusting the telephoto.

      It’s all about waiting—her and me, sitting in the car, waiting for the sun to go down, waiting for our third—Ryan—to signal that Xavier has gone to bed. I’m stuck in the passenger seat with Morgana to my left. She’s the experienced one; I’m the rookie. At least, that’s how I’m playing it.

      We’re parked at the end of a dirt road just outside the gate. The guard hasn’t seen us, won’t come down even if he does. Just call the sheriff and we’re off, gone before anyone gets here because we not only have a scanner, we have headquarters with their moles in the various law enforcement agencies all over the country monitoring every call.

      Celebrityville USA. We’re all so lucky that everyone wants a piece of the action.

      I mean, Morgana says, still fiddling with the focus. She’s using the damn camera as a spyglass. My dreams are just as crazed. Really. The last time I got Xavier, we get the standard naked-in-front-of-a-crowd thing. And you know, it’s from his point of view, so except for that quick take at his johnson, we don’t see much of anything—just crowd reaction and laughter, lots of laughter. Hell, I can have that dream on my own.

      Not with a johnson, I think, but of course I don’t say that. I keep my own counsel. Hell, I even keep my own name. I am undercover with the Dream Merchants. They all call me Max, and I’ve been here long enough to answer to it.

      I bite my fingernail so that I don’t give Morgana my first answer. The first answer would’ve been the honest one: if you think this is all such a crock, why the hell do you do it?

      But I know why she does it. I’ve seen the money. I watch the kids buying this stuff, readily packaged by the mass-market conglomerates, the ones that used to sponsor magazines and stuff on glitz. Smart corporate execs—they figured out, once the dream technology became viable, that other people’s dreams sold well on the Internet. Digitized, compartmentalized, surreal as hell.

      The car is cold. Night on the beach, tiny towns. Celebs should know better than to trust locals with information about travel. Northern California was once the celeb hotspot, then they all had to move north. Oregon kept its secrets for the longest time—poorest state in the nation by the teens, lots of hunger, lots of need for work—desperate people don’t talk much.

      But in the last few years, the economy has turned around and word is getting out. Nur and Catherine with their palace on the Elbow; Sappho (stupid name, that) and Jenella in Yachats; and

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