Slaves of Sleep & The Masters of Sleep

L. Ron Hubbard

ISBN 10: 1592122191 ISBN 13: 9781592122196

Publisher: Galaxy Audio, 2013

Jan Palmer, the unwilling president of a Seattle steamship company, secretly yearns to break free of his corporate responsibilities. However, his fortunes take an abrupt change when Professor Frobish, a meddling academic, breaks the seal on an old Arabian copper jar Jan has inherited and releases a terrifying Jinn, Zongri. The Jinn promptly slays Frobish with one slash of his scimitar and curses Jan with "Eternal Wakefulness" before vanishing. When the police arrive, it is Jan who is found by the blood-stained corpse and arrested for murder.This is just the beginning of Jan's troubles. On Earth, he is locked in a prison cell awaiting trial. But every time he falls asleep, the curse strikes and he turns into Tiger, a swashbuckling rogue living in the strange world of the Jinn, where humans rank below slaves and the evil Zongri roams unfettered. And Jan Palmer, wresting with his two lives, not daring to sleep for fear of the consequences, faces danger and death at every turn.

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Review

"I stayed up all night finishing it. The yarn scintillated." Ray Bradbury
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"S"laves of Sleep and Masters of Sleep" sparkle with dreamdust...rousing adventure tales." Roger Zelazny "

"The story I remember best by a master of adventure." Anne McCaffrey

About the Author

L. Ron Hubbard’s legendary writing career, one of the most widely read and enduring of our time, encompassed more than 250 novels, short stories and screenplays in every major genre including 19 New York Times bestsellers. Among his bestselling and classic speculative fiction trendsetters are Fear, Final Blackout, Ole Doc Methuselah and his crowning epic masterworks, Battlefield Earth and the ten-volume Mission Earth series, which together dominated American bestseller lists for 153 weeks. Though he was first and foremost a writer, his life experiences and travels in all corners of the globe were wide and diverse. His insatiable curiosity and personal belief that one should live life as a professional led to a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment. He was also an explorer and ethnologist, mariner, pilot, filmmaker, photographer, philosopher, educator, composer and musician. Growing up in the rugged frontier country of Montana, Ron broke his first bronc and became the blood brother of a Blackfoot Indian medicine man by the age of ten. In 1927, when he was sixteen, he traveled to a still-remote Asia. The following year, to further satisfy his thirst for adventure and augment his growing knowledge of other cultures, he left school and returned to the Orient. On his trip, he worked as a supercargo and helmsman aboard a coastal trader that plied the seas between Japan and Java. He came to know old Shanghai, Beijing and the western hills at a time when few Westerners could enter China. He traveled more than a quarter of a million miles by sea and land while still a teenager and before the advent of commercial aviation as we know it. He returned to the United States in the autumn of 1929 to complete his formal education. He entered The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., where he studied engineering and took one of the earliest courses in atomic and molecular physics. In addition to his studies, he was the secretary of the Engineering Society and president of the Flying Club, and wrote articles, stories and plays for the university newspaper. During the same period he also barnstormed across the American Midwest and was a national correspondent and photographer for the Sportsman Pilot magazine, one of the most distinguished aviation publications of its day.

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