Science Fiction
The Dream Hotel
Laila Lalami
Synopsis
An algorithm reads Sara’s dreams as signs that she may become dangerous. Detained on that prediction, she must negotiate an institution whose rules turn imagined possibilities into restrictions on her life. Her struggle centers on reclaiming freedom when the evidence against her comes from her own sleeping mind.
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The Dream Hotel: when a prediction becomes a prison
Laila Lalami imagines surveillance reaching into sleep, turning the difference between possible harm and actual guilt into a daily struggle.
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