Mindswap - Hardcover

SHECKLEY, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0575011815 ISBN 13: 9780575011816

Publisher: Delacorte Press, 1966

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

One of the great living writers of SF, Robert Sheckley is distinguished by a bright, witty, pyrotechnic prose style and the portrayal of humorous absurdities in his fiction.. He has been writing since the 1950s, is the author of more than forty books, and has been translated worldwide.

From AudioFile:

There's nothing so joyous in science fiction as a Golden Age chestnut, and MINDSWAP delivers with gusto. Narrator Tom Weiner shares that gusto as he portrays alien dialects, futuristic slang, and interplanetary adventure. Weiner evokes the B-movie aesthetic so strongly that one expects to hear cheesy beeps, radar pings, and theremin music. Satire is the name of the game, and satire is always best served straight up. Recognizing this, Weiner modulates his tone to one of earnest sincerity. Winking sarcasm would destroy the tone, so even when a Martian speaks with the broadest Cockney accent in history, Weiner's delivery is perfectly apropos. Listening to this audiobook is just plain fun. A.Z.W. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Delacorte Press
• Publication date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0575011815
• ISBN 13: 9780575011816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224