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Country United States Publication date July 1, 1987 ISBN 0-553-26585-7 Genre Science Fiction | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Pages 276 Originally published 1987 Page count 276 Publisher Bantam Spectra | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Nominations Philip K. Dick Award, Locus Award for Best First Novel Similar Pat Cadigan books, Science Fiction books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Mindplayers is a 1987 first novel by science fiction author Pat Cadigan.
Contents
Plot summary
A dare goes awry when Ali tries on a stolen madcap and is afflicted with psychotic delusions that will not go away. "Cured" by a mindplayer, Ali is soon forced to become one herself or face a prison sentence as a "mind criminal."
Reception
Analog Science Fact & Fiction said of Mindplayers and Cadigan, "Excellent stuff, perceptive, imaginative, subtle and penetrating. A pleasure to read, and a writer to admire." Fantasy Review called the novel "an energetic, intriguing, darkly humorous head-trip extravaganza." The novel was nominated for a Philip K. Dick Award in 1988.
References
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