Mindplayers

(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.
( http://weblog.siliconcerebrate.com/zenos-library/2009/05/mindplayers_pat_cadigan... )

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