New York: Moon Books / Random House, (1988.). Originally published in 1971 by the author as "The Comforter", this is the story of a people who live only for the dream; into the world of Ata comes a desperate man who is lead on the spiritual journey that sooner or later all of us must make. This book has been called a love story, science fiction, Jungian myth and utopian allegory - it is a bit of all of these. 220 pp. ISBN: 0-394732928.