Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

By: Peter Orullian

Narrated by: Edward Baker

Nicholas Santori has had troubling dreams all his life. With the anniversary of his daughter's death, those dreams have gotten worse, threatening the stability of his family and perhaps his own safety. After receiving cryptic messages about his dreams from his clairvoyant son, Nicholas seeks help from an eccentric hypnotherapist. During regression, Nicholas learns that in a former life he was a girl named Victoria Page, that she was murdered, and that her case was never truly solved. Believing he can end his nightmares if he can solve Victoria's murder, he finds retired detective Colin Murphy, and together, they hope to solve the cold case, while someone is desperately trying to stop them.

Orullian deftly weaves the two sides of this interconnected story across the twentieth century. From nightmares, to zeppelins, to train heists, to mafia hits, to heartfelt conversations about loss, Orullian's propulsive imagining of Dream Theater's critically acclaimed album Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory is by turns thrilling, suspenseful, and poignant.

©2024 Peter Orullian (P)2025 Peter Orullian

To this day... This band. This album. This song...

Brings tears to my eyes... barely a minutes in length... and yet this song pierces my heart and soul.

4. Scene Three: I. Through My Words

[Present]
[Nicholas:]
All your eyes have ever seen
All you've ever heard
Is etched upon my memory
Is spoken through my words

All that I take with me
Is all you've left behind
We're sharing one eternity
Living in two minds
Linked by an endless thread
Impossible to break

And now... this book... this audio book takes my mind, my emotions, my everything on a journey like no other.

The most important thing I can do now is to ask...

When... In what form... Will...

Metropolis: Part 3

Be released upon the world, to finish one of the best stories... concepts... ever done?

interesting characters

though, I am intimately familiar with story already being a fan of dream theater, I found the mob connection to be unnecessary. other than that I thought it was very well crafted.