Lincoln's Dreams is about a historical researcher studying the U.S. Civil War who meets a young woman who seems to be dreaming General Lee

Robert E. Lee

Robert Edward Lee was a career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War....

's dreams. Connie Willis

Connie Willis

Constance Elaine Trimmer Willis is an American science fiction writer. She has won eleven Hugo Awards and seven Nebula Awards. Willis most recently won a Hugo Award for Blackout/All Clear...

 brings to her writing a sense of realism and apparently detailed research into historical aspects of her fiction. This book is about parapsychology

Parapsychology

The term parapsychology was coined in or around 1889 by philosopher Max Dessoir, and originates from para meaning "alongside", and psychology. The term was adopted by J.B. Rhine in the 1930s as a replacement for the term psychical research...

, metaphysical

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a branch of philosophy concerned with explaining the fundamental nature of being and the world, although the term is not easily defined. Traditionally, metaphysics attempts to answer two basic questions in the broadest possible terms:...

speculations, death, and love.

Lincoln's Dreams won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1988, and was nominated for the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel that same year.

External links

• Review by Science Fiction Weekly
• Lincoln's Dreams at Worlds Without End