The Mind Parasites (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Colin Wilson
- First Published: 1967
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—inner space
- Time of Work: 1994-2007
- Setting: London, England; Turkey; New York State; Washington, D.C.; and space
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Extrasensory perception or powers, Twenty-first century, England or English people, Washington, D.C., London, Parasites, 1990’s, Archaeology or archaeologists, Turkey or Turkish people, Evolution
- Locales: New York, Space, Washington, D.C., London, England, Turkey
The Plot
The story is told in the form of a retrospective account prepared by archaeologist Gilbert Austin shortly before his disappearance. In 1994, Austin learns that his old friend, psychologist Karel Weissman, has died, apparently by suicide. Now the executor of his friend’s scientific papers, Austin is distracted by developments in his archaeological work—a distraction to which, he realizes later, he owes his life. He travels to Turkey to discuss the dating of Hittite figurines he discovered; another scientist, Wolfgang Reich, thinks the figurines are thousands of...
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