Mielenpeli (edition 2010)

by Pat Cadigan, Matti Rosvall ((KÄÄnt.))

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Allie Haas only did it for a dare the kind of dare you know is a mistake but you do it anyway because it's Mistake Yime. But putting on the madcap that Jerry Wirerammer has 'borrowed' was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, a few paranoid delusions, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off. Jerry did the decent thing and left her at an emergency room for dry cleaning but then the Brain Police took over. Straightened out by a professional mindplayer, Allie thinks she's left mind games behind for good but then comes the fazer: she can either go to jail as mind criminal or she can train as a mindplayer herself...… (more)

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Member:	Cathylazh
Title:	Mielenpeli
Authors:	Pat Cadigan
Other authors:	Matti Rosvall ((KÄÄnt.))
Info:	[Helsinki] : Avain, 2010.
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Mindplayers by Pat Cadigan

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HanJie | Apr 29, 2016 |

hallucinogenic cyberpunk. out of the wilder reaches of Philip K. Dickian psychology of the future. whew. classic tour de force. (

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macha | Sep 9, 2015 |

(Amy) This was, frankly, boring. I'm not quite sure how I got so jaded that a world in which people routinely swap around memories and mindstates and personalities and so on, and in which they seek out "neurosis peddlers" and "dreamfeeders" and "pathos-finders" to jazz up their lives, to be not intriguing or shocking or appalling, but merely dull. Nonetheless, there you are. Quite probably the only part of this book that I will remember six months from now is that the connections between one's brain and the "mindplay" systems are made via the optic nerve, which requires that your eyes be popped out to provide access. Oogy.
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Tea from an Empty Cup / Mindplayers / Fools by Pat Cadigan

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Os vigilantes do imaginário - 1 by Pat Cadigan

Os vigilantes do imaginário - 2 by Pat Cadigan

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Philip K. Dick Award (Nominee – 1987)

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This is for my husband, Arnie Fenner for love and loyalty above and beyond.

In loving memory of Tom Reamy. Won't forget, Tom.

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I did it on a dare.

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"I understand this is your first dead client," Sabian was saying. The absurdity of the statement made me want to laugh but they don't call me Deadpan Allie and lie.

A morgue is a morgue is a morgue. They can paint the walls with aggressively cheerful primary colors and splashy bold graphics, but it's still a holding place for the dead until they can be parted out to organ banks. Not that I would have cared normally but my viewpoint was skewed. The relentless pleasance of the room I sat in seemed only grotesque.

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Allie Haas only did it for a dare the kind of dare you know is a mistake but you do it anyway because it's Mistake Yime. But putting on the madcap that Jerry Wirerammer has 'borrowed' was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, a few paranoid delusions, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off. Jerry did the decent thing and left her at an emergency room for dry cleaning but then the Brain Police took over. Straightened out by a professional mindplayer, Allie thinks she's left mind games behind for good but then comes the fazer: she can either go to jail as mind criminal or she can train as a mindplayer herself...

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For Allie, putting on the madcap that Jerry borrowed was a very big mistake. The psychosis itself was quite conventional, but it didn't go away when she took the madcap off, so the Brain Police took over leaving her with a choice - go to jail as a mind criminal or become a mindplayer.

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