Ditmar Award 1981. John W. Campbell Memorial Award: Best Novel nominee (1981).

The Dreaming Dragons is also known as The Dreaming (2001).

Respected editor David Pringle selected this work as one of the top 100 science fiction novels of the century! In this story, specially updated for Fictionwise by the author, an anthropologist travels to the central Australian desert to search for the source of an aboriginal myth; he suspects the terrible "Rainbow Serpent" is connected to the sacred Uluru rock formations. The holographic "Gate" he discovers with his nephew explains not just the origin of a legend, but the origin of man, and the true fate of the dinosaurs. Year's Best Science Fiction Pick, Ditmar Award Winner, John W. Campbell Memorial Award Nominee.

Published
1980
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Damien Broderick

Damien Francis Broderick (born 1944) is an Australian science fiction and popular science writer. His science fiction novel The Judas Mandala is sometimes credited with the first appearance of the term "virtual reality".