Mindswap

Name: Mindswap
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Robert Sheckley
ISBN: 9781441736529

Author: Robert Sheckley

Narrator: Tom Weiner

Unabridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 06/16/2010

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Interstellar travel to alien worlds is too expensive for Marvin, a college student in need of a good vacation. So he signs up for what he can afford: a mind swap, in which his consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. Unfortunately, Marvin finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminala body that he has to vacate, fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvins earthly body. Now Marvin has to find a body on the black market just to stay alive! Travel with Marvin from world to world, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding farfromideal bodies in awful situations.

About Robert Sheckley

Robert Sheckley was one of the funniest writers in the history of science fiction. He did screwball comedy, broad satire, and farce. He could also be deadly serious, but he was always entertaining and always had something pointed to say about our world using the skewed versions of reality he created in his fiction. Starting in the early 1950s, he was an amazingly prolific short story writer, with a lot of his stories appearing in Galaxy Magazine. He launched his novel-writing career with Immortality, Inc., which he followed up with a sequence of excellent books: The Status Civilization, Journey Beyond Tomorrow, and Mindswap. He continued to produce novels and short stories in abundance until his death in 2005.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Vit

It seems that Robert Sheckley singlehandedly managed to invent a new literary genre – the absurdist space opera. And in his brilliant books he cleverly mocks everything starting with space travel and ending with philosophy: Bridges are receptacles of opposed ideas. Their horizontal distance speaks to......more

Goodreads review by Manny

[Original review, 2008] A wonderfully zany SF romp, which you'd be tempted to dismiss as a rip-off of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy if it hadn't been written 15 years earlier. I see that some reviewers here object to Sheckley's style and dialogue, but to me it seemed clear that he was mostly parod......more

Goodreads review by Jamie

A rollicking, absurd intergalactic comic adventure similar in many regards to Sheckley's masterpiece, Dimension of Miracles. While it starts out quite promising, it goes too far off the rails at some point. Still, very amusing and an excellent contribution to the sci-fi / comedy genre. I highly reco......more

Goodreads review by Laura

Una novela de ciencia ficción humorística, que me recordó mucho a The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy de Douglas Adams, si no fuera porque este libro se escribió mucho antes. Estas extrañísimas aventuras de Marvin Flynn por la galaxia son divertidas, delirantes y muy amenas de leer. Este es mi prime......more

Goodreads review by Xabi1990

6/10 en 2006. No está mal la historia (los personajes, como todos los clásicos, flojitos). Eso de irte de vacaciones intercambiando el cuerpo con uno de otro planeta (trueque mental) es de lo mas evocador, me apunto!......more