From the author of "Nocturnes; Flight from Ein Sof; The Inventor; A Paler Shade of Red -- Memoirs of a Radical; "and" One Night in Copan."
In his newest and most chilling dystopia, W. E. Gutman takes fellow insomniacs on a dark, eerie journey into a netherworld of visions that skirt the nightmarish regions of insanity.
Written for the stage and screen, ONE LAST DREAM asks disquieting questions: Do the dreams we spin, the thoughts we ponder betray us? Can our musings be censored? Will the neurons in our brains be rewired to turn us into servile conformists? Is the clash of dreams the real cause of mankind's afflictions?
If neuroscientists succeed, there will soon be a way to access and decipher the brain's most quirky constructs. And ethicists will struggle with a new conundrum: Will dreamers be spied upon by some future thought police? How long before eccentric nightmares or heretical concepts -- whether seized in one's sleep or evoked in a wakeful state -- are intercepted and wayward dreamers are reprogrammed or permanently silenced? In ONE LAST DREAM, W. E. Gutman explores the consequences of mind manipulation in a world where free thought is feared, erudition is reviled, and morality is little more than a distillate of codified groupthink.

About the Author:
Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a retired journalist. Between 1994 and 2006, he reported from Central America. Formerly the international editor of the now-defunct futurist magazine, "OMNI," and U.S. editor of the Moscow-based quarterly, "Science in the USSR," he is the author of seven books. He lives with his wife in southern California.

From the author of "A PALER SHADE OF RED -- Memoirs of a Radical; FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF" and "THE INVENTOR" comes this collection of gritty, satirical, chilling, iconoclastic, always ferocious and unrepentant dystopias. Death and virgin birth, immortality and cannibalism, paradise and hell, the cosmos, bigotry and vigilantism, close encounters, wars to end all wars, hallucinations, disquieting prophecies and insanity -- mainly insanity -- are the forces that drive "ONE NIGHT IN COPAN."
Oscillating between parody and polemic, allegory and unalloyed horror, paradox and hyperbole, the apocalyptic canvases W. E. Gutman paints can be read as one man's antidote for the despotism of inflexible creeds and the paralyzing effects of groupthink.
A work of hyper-realism, this collection of thirteen tales uses bizarre, fantastic, sometimes ghoulish, always disquieting devices to capture and expose truths that people ensconced in ideological cocoons ignore, shirk or refute.

About the Author:
Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a veteran journalist and author. A former writer at "OMNI" magazine and U.S. editor of "Science in the USSR," he covered politics and human rights in Central America from 1994 to 2006. He lives with his wife in southern California.

An epic work of remarkable scope, vigor and passion, W. E. Gutman's latest book is acerbic, iconoclastic and disquieting. In this memoir, he chronicles his life with eloquent, engaging prose that will resonate with readers long after they turn the last page. The palpable sense of wonder and discovery peppered with dark humor and great humanity, is reminiscent of Nabokov's "Speak Memory" and Proust's "Remembrance of Things Past." This honest, often self-critical account of the author's ups and downs as a wanderer and journalist makes "A Paler Shade of Red" great literature.

About the Author:
Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a veteran journalist and author. A former writer at "OMNI" magazine and U.S. editor of "Science in the USSR," he covered politics and human rights in Central America from 1994 to 2006. He lives with his wife in southern California.

From the author of "NOCTURNES" and "FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF"

Blending history, art and fiction, "THE INVENTOR" is an ode to secular humanism and a searing condemnation of religious and political sophistry. Multi-layered, this story-within-a-story revisits crimes committed in the name of God. It also resurrects a largely unknown, sadly neglected medieval painter who, reaching beyond the grave, can now show his face, belie his critics and put an end to speculations about the insights, passions and ordeals that inspired his art. Capturing the horrors his eyes have seen and foreshadowing the upheavals that would rock the world, filled with blistering commentaries on life, free thought, human bestiality and the death of reason, his allegories, now five centuries old, denounce the despotism of absurd beliefs and satirize the pointless circularity of the human condition.
""Painting is another way of keeping a diary,"" Pablo Picasso once said. "THE INVENTOR" agitates against false prophets who, to ensnare men's souls, fill their heads with mind-boggling lies and often resort to violence to achieve their objectives. In so doing, it also offers "another way" of prying into a diary's most scandalous secrets.

About the Author:
Born in Paris, educated in France, Romania and Israel, W. E. Gutman is a widely published veteran journalist. Between 1991 and 2006, he covered politics, the military, human rights and other socio-economic issues in Central America. Formerly the international editor of the futurist New York-based magazine, OMNI, and U.S. editor of the Moscow-based magazine, Science in the USSR, he continues to write for a number of mainstream and special-interest publications. A self-described iconoclast, devout atheist and Freemason, he lives with his wife in Southern California's "high desert."

Satirical, politically incorrect, irreverent, "Flight from Ein Sof" is the fictional first-person account of a brief journey to and from a realm of nightmares and insanity. Filled with blistering commentaries on life, free thought, human bestiality and death, this scathing allegory exposes the absurdities and horrors of ideological tyranny, the irrationality of blind faith, the despotism of senseless beliefs and the pointless circularity of the human condition. Revisiting a theme first explored by the author in "NOCTURNES - Tales From The Dreamtime," this disquieting and profane opus warns against the ignominy of forced ideas and the false prophets who, to ensnare men's souls, fill their heads with mind-boggling lies.

About the Author:
Born in Paris, W. E. Gutman is a widely published veteran journalist and author. From 1991 to 2004 he was on assignment in Central America where he covered politics, human rights and other socio-economic themes. He lives with his wife in southern California's "high desert."

Exulting in polemic and moral disobedience, disquieting and politically charged, NOCTURNES swings dizzyingly between parody and horror, wry humor and paradox. Denouncing predigested notions of life and death, compassion and bestiality, justice and inequity, sanity and psychosis, this thinly veiled allegory casts an acerbic, often savage eye at society's most cherished convictions. Implicit in this cautionary parable is a haunting but strangely tenable premise: Imagine a realm that spies on dreamers, a social order in which "forbidden" musings, nightmares, chimeras and heretical concepts -- whether seized in one's sleep or evoked in a wakeful state -- are intercepted and wayward dreamers are hunted down and silenced. The "dreams" woven in NOCTURNES are aimed to stupefy, disconcert. Bent on distracting society from its utilitarian yoke and reconciling irrationality with the rigors of conscious thought, the author argues that knowledge of the world is inextricably shaped and conditioned by the opinions we inherit -- or that we perfunctorily manufacture along the way. A penchant for deconstructionist philosophy leads the author to argue that the only valid foundation for knowledge is an attitude that, on one hand, rejects "truth" based on blind trust or coerced doctrine "any truth that owes its existence solely to faith is a lie"], and, on the other, proposes that reality comes directly from our experience of what it is to perceive it "We are what we think."] NOCTURNES is literature at its most surreal -- perhaps the storybook equivalent of a Hieronymus Bosch painting or an Escher ink drawing that defies the laws of perspective and fools the senses Anyone requiring booster shots ofcynicism, the kind that deliver dreamers from groundless hope, idealists from pointless fancies, will savor W. E. Gutman's new opus. All others, the straitlaced and the faint-of-heart, are enjoined to abstain lest they succumb to its melancholy spell.

L'auteur de: NOCTURNES; FLIGHT FROM EIN SOF; THE INVENTOR; A PALER SHADE OF RED -- MEMOIRS OF A RADICAL; et ONE NIGHT IN COPAN vous propose: UN DERNIER REVE
Dans sa nouvelle et inquietante dystopie, W. E. Gutman traverse les regions cauchemaresques de la folie. Ecrit pour l'ecran ou le theatre, "UN DERNIER REVE" pose des questions angoissantes: Les songes que nous tissons, les idees que nous enfantons, nos fantasmes et nos chimeres -- pourraient-ils un jour nous trahir ? L'inegalite, l'incompatibilite des reves, l'antagonisme qu'ils suscitent, seraient-ils a l'origine de tout conflit humain ? Les reveurs, seront-ils guettes, pistes par une imminente police du reve et reduits au silence ? Peut-on transformer les insoumis en abrutis serviles ? Dans "UN DERNIER REVE," W. E. Gutman explore les consequences d'un autodafe moderne dans un monde ou la libre pensee est honnie, ou le savoir est meprise et ou la vertu n'est qu'un alliage pharisaique de croyances collectives codifiees.

A propos de l'auteur:
Ne a Paris, diplome de l'Ecole Superieure de Journalisme, W. E. Gutman est un journaliste et ecrivain americain. L'ancien redacteur international du magazine futuriste, "OMNI," et collaborateur de la revue "Science in the USSR," il fut en mission en Amerique Centrale entre 1994 et 2006. Il est l'auteur de sept livres. Il vit avec sa femme en Californie du Sud.