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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You

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The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You is part love story, part science fiction, at once Jungian myth and utopian allegory.

"Truly unforgettable!"-San Francisco Chronicle

The kin of Ata live only for the dream. Their work, their art, their love are designed in and by their dreams, and their only aim is to dream higher dreams. Into the world of Ata comes a desperate man, who is first subdued and then led on the spiritual journey that, sooner or later, all of us must make.

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I first encountered Dorothy Bryant’s incredible, incredibly strange novel The Kin of Ata Are Waiting for You in college, where it was assigned reading for a class. Science fiction novels assigned in 100-level college courses are naturally going to be a bit more cerebral and a bit less rayguns-and-space battles, and this one is perhaps the ultimate example […]
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