Alien Dream Machine, the third volume in the Phane series, has launched.

Phane Vikos is the alien from planet Vikos who has been stranded on Earth since the first book in the trilogy. His partner Flooma appears in this one, too (“she” was introduced in the second volume). And, slight spoiler: a new character appears, Makos, offspring of Phane and Flooma.  Makos is adorable, slightly smaller than a basketball, but just as green and tentacled as his parents.

Gunnar, the human protagonist in this story, is a recent mmigrant from Oslo. He watched endless reruns on TV there of The Rockford Files, a low-budget American TV show from the 1970s.  Gunnar’s childhood dream was to become Jim Rockford, master PI.  Now he’s a licensed PI in Las Vegas, but that’s about where the similarities stop. He has to outgrow his childish dreams and face reality, whatever that might be. For him, it includes green aliens from Vikos.

Like every novel I’ve written, this one is a joy and and a disappointment at the same time. It’s a miracle how the characters came to life, but despite their shenanigans and jawboning, I wonder if I isolated the essence of what I wanted to say. It’s close, but close is frustrating, not satisfying. That’s been my experience every time. Maybe that’s why we keep writing.

It’s like trying to write down a dream that you had. You can write and write, on and on for pages and yet somehow before you can nail down the core of the dream, it evaporates.  I guess I could say the same about all of experience.

Join Phane, his alien family, and his human friends. See www.psifibooks.com for all the titles in the series.

Alien Dream Machine (83,500 words), by William X. Adams, is available now:

Ebook –  Kindle:  ISBN: 978-1-7355412-5-9              327 pp

Paper –   KDP:        ISBN: 978-1-7355412-6-6   333 pp kdp 6×9

Ebook – Smashwords  ISBN: 978-1-7355412-4-2  (Epub)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1066184