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Mindplayers are tomorrow's psychoanalysts, linked directly to their patients using sophisticated machinery attached to the optic nerve. In one-to-one Mindplay contact, you can be inside someone else's head, wandering the landscapes of their consciousness. Allie is a sensation-seeking young woman, obtaining illicit thrills from her shady friend Jerry Wirerammer. But Allie goes badly astray when Jerry supplies her with a "madcap" - a device that lets you temporarily and harmlessly experience psychosis. There's something wrong with Jerry's madcap, and the psychosis doesn't go away when it's disconnected. Allie ends up undergoing treatment at a "dry-cleaner", and she is faced with a stark choice - jail, for her illegal use of the madcap; or training to become a Mindplayer herself.
During training Allie becomes familiar with the Pool - a cohesive, though shifting mental landscape jointly constructed by a number of minds; and more disturbingly encounters McFlor, who has been mind-wiped, so that his adult body is inhabited by a mind only two hours old. And as a fully-fledged Mindplayer Allie has to choose between the many specialist options open to her - Reality Affixing or Pathosfinding; Thrillseeking or Dreamfeeding.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherGateway
- Publication dateSeptember 29, 2011
- File size732 KB
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- ASIN : B00H6SOQSG
- Publisher : Gateway (September 29, 2011)
- Publication date : September 29, 2011
- Language : English
- File size : 732 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 296 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #642,751 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,302 in Cyberpunk Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #4,629 in Historical Fantasy (Books)
- #5,184 in Dystopian Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
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About the author
“I swear they told me I was terminal...but that was back in December 2014. What can I say? Heaven doesn’t want me and Hell’s afraid I’ll take over.”
Pat Cadigan won the Arthur C. Clarke Award twice for her novels Synners and Fools, and the Scribe Award three times for Best Novelisation, most recently for Ultraman. She has also won three Locus Awards––best short story for "Angel," best collection for Patterns, and best novelette for "The Girl-Thing Who Went Out For Sushi,", which also won the Hugo Award and Japan's Seiun Award; it can be found in Edge of Infinity, edited by Jonathan Strahan. Most often identified as one of the original cyberpunk writers––the Guardian called her The Queen of Cyberpunk––her work includes fantasy, horror, young adult, and nonfiction.
Born in New York, she grew up in Massachusetts but spent most of her adult life in the Kansas City area, where she worked for ten years at Hallmark Cards, Inc., writing greeting cards, often in perfect iambic pentameter. She now lives in gritty, urban north London with her husband Chris Fowler, and takes pride in the accomplishments of her son, musician, composer, data scientist, and nonfiction writer Robert Fenner.
Along with her media tie-in writing, Cadigan is working on two new original novels––working titles: See You When You Get There and Truth & Bone––while she makes terminal cancer her bitch. Diagnosed in late 2014 with an inoperable and incurable form of recurrent endometrial cancer, she was given at most two years to live. After she underwent what was supposed to have been strictly palliative chemotherapy in early 2015, however, doctors were forced to revise their estimates from 'two years or less' to 'Someday, maybe––hey, we just work here'.
When asked for comment, Cadigan, who has already returned from the dead after a severe case of anaphylactic shock, said, “Each of us was put on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. I’m now so far behind that I can never die.”
She has been keeping a Wordpress blog called 'Ceci N'est Pas Une Blog––Dispatches From Cancerland' about her adventures as a cancer patient; she promises that it's not a bummer. In fact, some of it is even funny. She can also be found on Facebook and tweets as @cadigan and just about everything there is funny, too.
Cadigan was proud to do the novelisation of William Gibson’s unproduced screenplay for what would have been the third Aliens movie, published 31 August 2021. (Spoiler Alert: it’s not the third Aliens movie that you saw in the theatre, on video, or in your nightmares.) In fact, Gibson did two drafts of the screenplay; this novelisation is his first draft. The second draft was very different and was adapted as a graphic novel by Dark Horse, starring the fabulous artwork of Johnny Christmas. Cadigan thinks you should own both, because.
Her latest works are Ultraman and Ultraseven, novelisations of the legendary Japanese superheroes from Nebula M73. Ultraman came out in 2023, while Ultraseven is scheduled for early 2025. If you’re unfamiliar with Ultraman, watch for the upcoming Ultraman documentary, coming soon from Japanese public television.
Thanks to Gollancz’s highly successful Gateway eBook program, all of Cadigan’s original novels are available electronically. Other books, such the two making-of movie books she was commissioned to write—The Making of Lost in Space and The Resurrection of the Mummy—are available through third-party sellers. Support independent and second-hand book-dealers whenever possible. You can’t get everything in electronic format. Also, before eBooks came along, second-hand book dealers prevented many good writers from disappearing altogether. Ebooks are great because you can take hundreds of them with you on an airplane without worrying about the weight allowance but it’s still great to have a book signed by your favourite author.
As a cancer patient (remember, she’s not in remission, just stubborn), Cadigan spent 2020 at home, thanks to the inconvenience of a global pandemic. She got a lot of writing done, but not a lot of housework, because seriously? Are you kidding? Sightings continued to be scarce during 2021. Cadigan hoped to get around more in 2022 but didn’t.
In 2020, she was nominated for the Scribe Award for Alita Battle Angel, and was delighted when she won. She says that her editor, Ella J Chappell was crucial in helping her produce her best work possible. Like Ellen Datlow and Gardner Dozois, Ms Chappell has become a lasting influence on Cadigan’s work in general.
In 2022, she was again nominated for the Scribe Award for Alien 3, the novelisation of William Gibson’s unproduced screenplay. Nominees and winners were announced at the San Diego Comic Con and to her even greater delight, she won again. And in 2024, she was overjoyed to win a third time for Ultraman. She has had superb editorial support from Titan Books.
A full list of Scribe Award winners is available at the International Association of Media Tie-In Writers website.
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- Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2012I have loved this book since I was little and snitched it from my mom's library of books... Did not get the cover I was hoping for, but it's still the same book and just as fantastical and creative as it ever was...
- Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2015I picked up this digital copy to reread a book I like while my hardcopy is in storage. The Optical Character Recognition errors and occasional odd line breaks come close to breaking the the thread of the story at times. But the errors make the trip through "Mindplayers" bumpy, not impossible.
- Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 1999Mindplayers is well written, at times funny and full of cool ideas. Unfortunately it's also repetitious and, though short, still too long for it's story. This could have been a five-stare novella!
- Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2004Mindplayers is one of the best books I have ever read, sci-fi or otherwise. Pat Cadigan has a brilliant imagination. She tries her best to keep up with it. Her writing is a bit haphazard, but very good overall. Mindplayers is set in the future, where Mindplay has changed society for better or worse. Differing degrees of Mindplay require professionals to assist those engaging in it. One of these professionals is Deadpan Allie (love that play on words). Allie is a former layabout who has been recruited to become a professional Mindplayer. The strange characters she meets and weird situations she is in mesmerize the reader. There is also a lot of philosophy for the reader to chew on.
Recommended for sci-fi/fantasy fans. No graphic sex or violence. I also recommend Dervish is Digital, another sci-fi treasure by Cadigan.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2002Pat Cadigan's MindPlayers was one of the first "sci-fi" books I read, and I fell in love with it. All the characters have their own unique quirks and personality traits, but my favorite two characters were the twins, Dolby and Dolan. Each time I read Mindplayers, I find something that I missed the last time I read the book. The creative aspects of the characters is the best part of the story. It is noteworthy that almost every character within the book has an altered appearance; no one seems to be as they were at birth. Onionheads are especially interesting, although they get only a mention. Pat Cadigan has had to endure television and movie ripoffs of some of the details within Mindplayers, but this book remains a classic and the first of its kind.
- Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 1997Pat Cadigan's MINDPLAYERS is one of my favorite SF novels, & I challenge anybody to read the first couple of pages without finishing the book. Her ideas about designer personalities are fascinating (and they predate Prozac by several years!). Best of all, she writes with a voice like no other: sly, subversive, seductive.
- Reviewed in the United States on March 3, 2012I came to this book from the article entitled "Razor girls: genre and gender in cyberpunk fiction". I was looking for a Molly-esque charachter, maybe that's why it failed my expectations. This was my first experience of Pat Cadigan, and unfortunately it's most probably the last.
While the setting itself is very interesting with all the mindplay and mind crimes, the plot is hollow. It consists of several barely connected episodes, or jobs, of the protagonist. None background global action is taking place, and i've been waiting for it reading the first half of the book, then it has become obvious that it won't show up.
The protagonist hardly gets any sympathy, you even become irritated by her, more and more throughout the book. The story goes from first person so you get to know all that's going on in her head - this feels like crawling into a person's head and face all its self-excluding and self-conflicting thoughts, which is not a good thing if you do not deliberately want it. Most of analysises of situations end up with "I'll think about this later" which she never does. She uses the same phrases over and over, in her head and in her speech, to the point when you can't stand it anymore. Meanwhile the secondary charachter, her former drug supplier, gets much more empathy.
The ending was a big relief, but not because something big happened (nothing really did as this was just the ending of one of the episodes which can be mashed up in any order without making much difference), just because it did finally end.
- Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2015The cover, as it appears here, appears nowhere in the item purchased. False advertising. Classic book, but that cover is the best it was ever published with. They shouldn't sell it as having that cover, if it doesn't.