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Mindswap / by Robert Sheckley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sheckley, Robert, 1928-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science fiction, American.
- Space and time--Fiction.
- Space and time.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copies)
- Physical Description:
- 216 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Orb, 2006.
- Summary:
- "In the future, interstellar travel to alien worlds will be too expensive for most ordinary people. It certainly is for Marvin, a college student who wants to take a really good vacation. And so he signs up for what he can afford, a mindswap, in which a persons consciousness is swapped into the body of an alien lifeform. But Marvin is unlucky, and finds himself in the body of an interstellar criminal, a body that he has to vacate fast. But that criminal consciousness has stolen Marvins earthly body, and Marvin has to find a body on the black market. Travel from world to world with Marvin, each one crazier than the last, as he keeps finding far-from-ideal bodies in awful situations, just to stay alive"--Page 4 of cover.
- Notes:
- "A Tom Doherty Associates book."
- Originally published: New York : Delacorte, 1966.
- Cover art: John Picacio.
- First printing.
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copies presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 82440
- ISBN:
- 0765315602
- 9780765315601
- OCLC:
- 69667837
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