Timelord Dreaming: tweetems from ward 8b - Softcover

Reiter, Dr David P

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192523102X ISBN 13: 9781925231021

Publisher: Interactive Press, 2015

Synopsis

Winner, 2016 Western Australia Premier's Award You wake in the middle of the night with a terrible pain radiating from your lower side up to your chest. An ambulance is called, and you’re rationed ever increasing doses of morphine on your way to the hospital.
In the EW, a heart attack is ruled out but the mystery intensifies.
Until a CT scan reveals the truth...
“You”, in this case, was the author, who, with the kindness of a Dr Who understudy and other medical staff at the Mater Hospital, Brisbane, survived a urgent operation and had many medicated days to reflect on an often surreal experience.
Timelord Dreaming uses “tweetems”, microtexts with Internet call-outs, to recreate one man’s journey through the parallel universes of patient and personal identity. If you’ve ever been hospitalised, you’ll find much that is familiar – and not always comfortable – here.
Dr David P Reiter won the 2012 Western Australian Premier’s Award for My Planets Reunion Memoir. Timelord Dreaming continues his innovative work in the frontier between text and digital media.
Illness as altered reality isolates us from the world. Sharp as a scalpel, David Reiter beams trippy tweetems from his hospital bed, cracking sterile walls and piercing us with poignancy.
– Dr Leah Kaminsky, Deputy Editor, Poetry & Fiction, Medical Journal of Australia
In the half-life world of hospitals, pain and medication, Dr Reiter has taken us on his journey into and through his mind. Taking twists, turns and delightful detours, he has developed a new form of digital communication – tweetems. While some draw on visitations of Doctor Who, the tweetems also take us on a myriad of musical and educational voyages. Between sonic screwdrivers and white cell scouts, Timelord Dreaming ensures our normalacy bias will be prodded and deconstructed.
– Anna Maguire, Digireado

About this title

About the Author

Dr David P Reiter (pictured here with his son Alexander) is a multi-award winning author and publisher living in Brisbane. He has written 20 fiction, poetry and children's titles, as well as scripts and multimedia. His previous children's books are Real Guns and The Greenhouse Effect. He's won the Queensland Premier s Award and been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd and Adelaide Festival Awards. He s presented his work to audiences in Australia and overseas and received several grants from the Australia Council and Arts Queensland.

Edition details

• Publisher: Interactive Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192523102X
• ISBN 13: 9781925231021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 84