Mindswap (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Robert Sheckley
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—New Wave
- Time of Work: An unspecified time in the future
- Setting: Stanhope, New York; Mars; and other worlds
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Future, Other worlds, Mars, Mind and body
- Locales: New York, Mars, Fictional planets
The Plot
Bored with life on a future Earth, Marvin Flynn agrees to engage in a “mindswap,” exchanging bodies for a month with a Martian named Ze Kraggash. After Marvin signs a number of bureaucratic forms at the body brokerage, warning of such dangers as metaphoric deformation and the Twisted World, his mind is translated into the body of Ze Kraggash. He is, however, met by an old Martian body occupied by the mind of a being from another planet who had in good faith conducted an earlier mindswap with Ze Kraggash. In the meantime, Ze Kraggash has disappeared with Marvin’s...
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