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In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive.… (mais)
Esta novela describe un futuro cercano en el cual la manera más barata de viajar por el universo consiste en intercambiar el cuerpo con un ser de otro planeta: el trueque permite pasar unas vacaciones en otro mundo, viviendo en el cuerpo de un nativo. Pero no todos los participantes en el trueque juegan limpio y a veces la recuperación del propio cuerpo y el regreso al propio mundo se convierten en una verdadera odisea.
I used to like this type of sci-fi, but my tastes have changed. I didn't appreciate the homophobia in chapter 13. I feel like if the author couldn't solve a plot problem, he just made things up, instead of trying to make it believable. I know sheckley meant it to be humorous; I found it unfunny. ( )
A hilarious example of anti-intellectualism in science fiction. Mindswap is a satire on Voltaire's Candide, where the hero ends up in increasingly improbable situations. Like Candide, it parodies many other works and the writing might seem clunky if you're not familiar with Golden Age and 1950s science fiction. ( )
Not my style. Reminds me of Hitchhikers Guide to the Universe - goofy story of boy who mindswaps and finds himself expelled from a stolen body… very wordy.
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Marvin Flynn read the following advertisement in the classified section of the Stanhope Gazette:
Gentleman from Mars, age 43, quiet, studious, cultured, wishes to exchange bodies with similarly inclined Earth gentleman. August 1-September 1, References exchanged. Brokers protected.
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And so, willingly and with a good grace, Marvin accepted his world at face value, married Marsha Baker, and lived forever after.
In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which your consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvin's earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far from ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive.
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