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The raw, rococo thoughts lay waiting to be tapped, just below the surface of realization. Warrant officer Ripley needed more self-control. Hopes and fears, speculations and half creations slipped haphazardly from compartment to compartment. It was in the warehouse of the mind that her filing system went awry. She was very good at organizing stores and cargo, at pigeonholing carton A in storage chamber B or matching up manifests. But she lacked real inspiration and the powerful maturity of thought characteristic of the prodreamer. She had a little ingrained dream talent and more flexibility of imagination than her companions. Of them all, Ripley came closest to possessing that special potential. A subtle weaver of speculation, not straightforward and clumsy like you or I.
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A professional dreamer is simultaneously the most organized of all artists and the most spontaneous. It requires the ability to regulate semiconscious creative impulses and to stratify imagination, an extraordinarily, difficult combination to achieve. Dreaming professionally, so that one's dreams can be recorded and played back for the entertainment of others, is a much more demanding proposition. Like the majority of us, these seven dreamt without effort or discipline. Professional dreamers are highly paid, respected, much sought-after talents. You must understand that they were not professional dreamers. Otherwise circulated in any form of binding orĬover other than that in which it is publishedĪnd without a similar condition including thisĬondition being imposed on the subsequent purchaserĭerek Doyle & Associates, Mold, Clwyd Printed in England by Clays Ltd, St Ives plc Permission in writing of the publisher, nor be Stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any No part of this publication may be reproduced, TM & © 1993 by Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationĪll characters in this publication are fictitiousĪnd any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, This omnibus edition published by Warner Books 1993 TM & © 1992 by Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation TM & © 1979 by Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationĪliens first published in 1986 by Futura Publications TM & © 1986 by Twentieth Century Fox Film CorporationĪlien first published in Great Britain in 1992 by Warner Books,īy arrangement with Warner Books, Inc, New York Alien first published in Great Britain in 1979 by Futura Publication