Dream Dancer is a 1980 science fiction novel by American writer Janet Morris, the first in her Kerrion Empire trilogy.

[2][3] Marada, renegade second son of the most powerful family in space, the Kerrions, both a corporation and a political entity, is saved from a mob by 16-year-old Shebat on a primitive Earth.

In her debt, he allows her to accompany him into his high-tech world, adopting her, to protect her from a political purgatory.

Shebat is kidnapped and becomes a Dream Dancer (an illegal practice, not necessarily approved by all as it can become addictive to its users) and acquires the ability to read the future.

Shebat must learn to deal with those who control the destiny of millions of people – and to whom treachery, betrayal and murder are part of doing business.