Dagger of the Mind
by Bob Shaw
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'The entire head had been stripped of skin, creating a nightmarish sculpture in gelled blood...' The hideous apparition that confronted John Redpath almost defied description. It was the beginning of a horrific ordeal that would cause him to question his own sanity... A member of a telepathic research project, Redpath believes the cause to be side-effects from the experimental drugs he is taking - but then stranger things begin to happen. He wakes up to find himself in America...he is drawn show more to a local house occupied by a bizarre group of people leading an artificial and peculiar life...which events are really happening? Slowly an explanation emerges, more terrifying than anything he could have imagined... show lessTags
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A while since I've read this one, it concerns epilepsy in a psi-related mystery, rather like James Blish's 'Jack of Eagles'.
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- Original title
- Dagger of the mind
- Original publication date
- 1979
- First words
- It was while he was pouring his breakfast coffee that Redpath became aware that something was wrong.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Do that," Redpath said, easing himself down in the seat, turning his thoughts away from the past which was growing more unreal with every fleeting second, and towards a future whose realities had yet to emerge from the haze of shifting possibilities.
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- English, German, Italian, Portuguese
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