Mindplayers
#6412 of 8,085 books · #1563 in Science Fiction
Shortlisted for the Philip K. Dick Award (1988).
In a future where anyone with the right equipment can slip into another person's mind, trade in neuroses, thrills and psychoses flourishes, and borrowed personalities are sold like franchises. Allie Haas gets caught using an illegal "madcap" that leaves her mind shattered, and the price of her freedom is to train as a pathosfinder - a professional who enters other people's minds to explore and heal them. It is delicate, brutal and dangerous work: a mindplayer can grow stronger through it, or lose herself inside someone else and never find her way back.
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- ISBN-13
- 9781473201903
- Genre
- Topics
- CyberpunkMind and identityVirtual reality/psychology
Awards
- Philip K. Dick AwardShortlisted(1988)
Other awarded books from Pat Cadigan
- Synners (2012)1 win · 13 score
- Fools (2011)1 win · 8 score
- Dervish Is Digital (2010)0 wins · 2 score
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